Ian Sears

I build and ship clean, reliable, and fast to iterate on. I’m a Software engineer with deep strength in front-end development (React/JavaScrript/TypeScript) and solid backend experience (Node/Python/Ruby/Elixir).

I enjoy partnering with product and design to turn messy problems into simple, durable solutions.

I’ve led projects end-to-end in high-traffic environments, improved performance and UX, and raised engineering quality through better architecture, testing, and code review practices.

• Giant Eagle

• dscout

• Legend Web Works

• UT Austin / edX

• RAD Labz

• Ytel

Outside of my day-to-day engineering work, I stay hands-on by building side projects—apps, websites, and small services—both independently and with collaborators. I also enjoy embedded and hardware-focused work, prototyping with microcontrollers and sensors to explore how software interacts with the physical world.

Creatively, I work in music and digital art (photography, digital painting, and animation). Travel is another constant source of perspective and inspiration, and it consistently informs how I think about users, culture, and design.

I love creating art, music, code and traveling the world.

• Programming

• Music

• Art

• Gaming

• Traveling

• Languages