Ian Reynolds
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Altana
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolIan Reynolds is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 22 years of experience building web platforms and research-driven products that bridge academic insight and production engineering. He has moved between startup and research settings—from MIT CSAIL and the Media Lab to Khan Academy and Knowledge Futures Group—shipping performance-focused front-end improvements and scalable backend systems. His background includes applied research (an artificial echolocation device) and practical optimizations such as an 85% page-load improvement for users behind China's firewall, showing a knack for high-impact, user-centered engineering. At Altana Technologies he now applies that blend of research curiosity and product pragmatism to drive architecture and execution across teams.
23 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, Chinese
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Github Skills (69)
cms10
nodejs10
orange10
trains10
wysiwym9
editor9
javascript9
pagedjs9
visual-studio-extension9
prosemirror9
data-dashboard9
visual-studio-code9
visualizer9
ace-editor9
react9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
idreyn/utms-reader
Jun 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:138 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
transitmatters/new-train-tracker
Mar 2020 - May 2022
Tracking the MBTA's new Orange, Red, and Green trains
Contributions:1 release, 44 reviews, 97 commits in 2 years 2 months
orangetrainsmbtatrackingnodejs
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