Ian J MacIntosh.com

Independent Consultant

May 2023 – Present

• Led technical discovery for startups, identifying architecture options, implementation paths, and key constraints/tradeoffs
• Scaled a client’s engineering team over a 3-month engagement by partnering with one of Boston’s top boot camps to build a continuous hiring pipeline
• Published widely-read guides, ranking on Google’s first page, to solve practical issues like missing security headers, RUM analytics misconfiguration, mobile display issues, and other day-to-day problems

Engineering Manager / Delivery Lead, UI Team & Product Team

Aug 2021 – May 2023

• Led technical delivery and operations across 2 teams (18 engineers in US & India), owning outcomes and reporting directly to Director of Product
• Reduced defect rate by 50% by building CI/CD pipeline integration and E2E testing from scratch, establishing mandatory testing and code review standards
• Fixed code review noise by normalizing codebase formatting, linting, and cross-platform line endings (CRLF/LF)
• Completely overhauled all planning and coordination activities to consistently hit goals and provide reliable forecasting

Software Architect, Marketing

Apr 2018 – May 2019

• Managed and led 25 engineers; 5 teams of 3-10 indirect reports (on-site, hybrid, and fully remote) in time zones across US and India
• Architect for 35+ marketing sites, aligning with industry standards to improve stability and performance, boosting engagement +20% and trials +11%
• Stabilized 3 high-traffic websites running on archaic legacy infrastructure (Perl, NGINX), giving leadership time to focus on stack modernization instead of daily firefighting

Apr 2015 – Apr 2018

• Rebuilt the company’s product offerings into a singular all-in-one toolkit, improving front-end performance and scalability to support a growing user base of over 250,000 users while reducing tech debt

Oct 2009 – Apr 2015

• Rebuilt the company’s marketing website to be "mobile-first," introducing responsive design to the organization, presenting at internal conferences, and writing articles for company’s tech blog

Creator, Personal Project

Shipped Jun 2026

• Solo-built app to help patients and caregivers manage prescriptions
• Built on Cloudflare using Workers, TypeScript, React, Vite, Playwright, Vitest, and GitHub Actions
• Built with Claude Code CLI, Skills, agent orchestration, and other techniques from Kun Chen, Garry Tan, and Matt Pocock

Creator, Personal Project

Shipped Apr 2026

• Delivering life-saving information to people in crisis as fast as possible
• Built for accessibility and usability with tight look-and-feel; meets or exceeds WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria
• Applied user research to deliver frictionless UX
• Built on Cloudflare using Workers, TypeScript, React, Vite, Playwright, Vitest, and GitHub Actions

Creator, Personal Project

Shipped Mar 2025

• Built a PWA using JavaScript/TypeScript, React 18, React Router v7, and Workers
• Automated retrieval of exchange rate data from third-party API scheduled to run nightly with GitHub Actions
• Ensured stability with CI/CD automation for static code analysis and unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

Pilot

Completed Feb 2024

• Negotiated complex logistics to cross North, Central, and South America by motorcycle (28,126 miles, 15 countries)
• Learned Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish to clearly communicate through issues
• Resolved system failures in extremely remote and adverse conditions requiring quick thinking and creative problem-solving

• AI: Claude Code CLI, OpenCode, Google Gemini, Skills Files, Agent Orchestration, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf / Codeium
• Code: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, React Router v7 / Remix, Vite, CSS, HTML
• Testing: Vitest, Jest, Playwright, Cypress, Testing Library, MSW, Coveralls, Lighthouse
• Platforms: Cloudflare, Git, GitHub, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, VS Code, Dev Containers

Professional Scrum Master II

July 2023

Professional Scrum Master I

June 2023

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology