Ian Nowland
Summary
Ian Nowland is a senior software engineer with a track record of building scalable, cloud-native systems and developer-first tooling. He has hands-on experience across Scala, Java, Ruby, Python, and C, with a specialty in functional programming, DSLs, and dynamic content generation, often leveraging Lift for web UIs. He has led architecture and delivery at TraceLink, shaping core services, DRY front-end patterns, and server-side function manipulation to generate client-side JavaScript. His recent focus includes observability and tracing (OpenTracing, OpenTelemetry) and building cloud-native platforms on AWS, with roles at Tala, Kunai, and Imprivata. Based in Cambridge, MA, he holds a BS in Physics and CS from Northeastern and an MS in CS from Johns Hopkins, combining rigorous technical training with practical production engineering across life sciences, healthcare, and security domains.
3 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
compile4
compile-time3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kitlangton/zio-prelude
May 2022 - Dec 2022
A lightweight, distinctly Scala take on functional abstractions, with tight ZIO integration
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 months
ziofunctional-programmingscalajsscalaabstractions
inventure/docker-play-seeder
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:23 reviews, 19 commits, 41 PRs in 5 months
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