Ian Edington
Manager Of Innovation And Technology
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Edington is a technology leader with a decade of full‑stack experience, currently serving as Manager of Innovation and Technology at the Green Party of Ontario while taking a sabbatical to reflect and explore next steps. He spent five years at Faire building across React frontends, Kotlin backends and Python data pipelines, and authored faire/mjml-react — Faire’s most popular open‑source tool. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded Skill Valet and co‑founded Snowtification (winning regional Startup Weekend prizes) and led development of a WordPress-based ophthalmology app that generated $1.5M and 600 users in a year. Known for bridging product and engineering, he has a track record of operational improvements—from optimizing transactional marketing email systems to introducing a Docker-based cross‑platform developer environment—now aiming to apply that expertise to the repair and after‑sales maintenance sector.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University Certificate in Business Administraion, University Certificate in Business Administraion at Université de Montréal - HEC MontréalBachelor of Applied Studies, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Studies, Computer Science at Athabasca University
English, French
Stackoverflow
496reputation
270kreached
9answers
6questions
Github Skills (200)
testing10
to-do10
vim10
jsx10
ecosystem10
html10
json10
karabiner10
html-email10
nodejs10
css10
php10
email-templates10
text-table10
node-js10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
gpo/gpo-platform-configs
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Infrastructure as Code for the GPO
Contributions:21 reviews, 36 PRs, 32 pushes in 6 months
Faire/mjml-react
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
React component library to generate the HTML emails on the fly
Contributions:63 reviews, 22 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years
react-componentreacthtml-emailsemailemails
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