A senior full-stack software developer with 20+ years of experience shipping real-time, high-scale systems across e-commerce, telecom, aerospace, healthcare and beyond. I turn hard problems into elegant, dependable code.
I'm a senior full-stack software developer with two decades of professional experience delivering cutting-edge technology for industries ranging from e-commerce and telecommunications to aerospace, correctional services, telemedicine, farming and higher education.
My work spans the whole stack: project management, requirements gathering, software architecture, front-end and server-side development, database design, mobile apps, software testing and cloud engineering. I care about clean code, performance, and systems that stay up under load.
I have a habit of walking into unfamiliar technology stacks and shipping production systems anyway — I learn what I need on the job. Recent highlights include senior engineering at Shopify, building billion-transaction order-processing pipelines, and creating browser-based real-time video platforms for prisons, telemedicine and user research.
Order-processing pipeline for a global restaurant chain at under half a cent each.
Throughput on par with Amazon's busiest days, with zero-downtime upgrades.
WebRTC prison & telemedicine platform stress-tested and proven to scale.
The LiveCare Connect telemedicine engine I built reached 400+ clinics across Western Canada (early 2021).
Browser screen-sharing for call centres — no installs, no extensions.
Beyond application code, I design and run my own always-on infrastructure — a small self-hosted network of Debian and Windows hosts. It's where I keep my services private, my costs at zero, and my experiments in agentic AI close to the metal.
I love technology, but I work hard to keep a life outside it. My resume lists a few of the things I do when I step away from the keyboard.
I'm always open to interesting problems and good teams. The best way to reach me is email.
contact@ianfoote.com