Ian Sparkes
Head Of Infrastructure & Deployment Director Of Technology at The Hashgraph Group
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolIan Sparkes is a seasoned blockchain and DevOps leader with 11+ years of experience designing, deploying and productionising distributed ledger systems for enterprise clients. Based in Zurich, he has led architecture and delivery for Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, Ethereum and Hedera Hashgraph projects, combining hands‑on smart contract development (EVM/Solidity) with large‑scale platform engineering on Kubernetes/OpenShift. Known for a pragmatic, sceptical approach—constantly asking "why not use a database?"—he focuses on extracting real business value from DLT while cutting through hype. He has steered multi-organisation Fabric rollouts, built CI/CD and operational tooling, and served as a technical focal point and scrum master across banking and telco sectors. Comfortable both leading teams and getting his hands dirty in Node.js, Go and Java, he balances strategic platform vision with practical implementation experience. An uncommonly pragmatic blockchain evangelist, he prioritises measurable outcomes and resilient production operations over theoretical novelty.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Nottingham
English, German, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
rating10
spring9
virtualbox9
localtime9
arduino9
maven8
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ide8
esp82668
heroku8
jira7
devops7
artifactory7
dokku7
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
isparkes/OpenRate
Jul 2014 - Apr 2020
OpenRate Event Rating Engine
Contributions:3 releases, 63 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 9 months
rating
isparkes/time-zone-server
Apr 2016 - Dec 2020
Provides current local time and zone information given a TZ input
Contributions:12 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
localtime
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