Ian Bicking

Ian Bicking has a diverse work experience history. Ian started their career in 2004 at Imaginary Landscape LLC as a Senior Programmer, where they developed and maintained websites and web applications for clients. Ian also worked on implementing a multi-tenant content management system. In 2006, they joined The Open Planning Project as a Senior Programmer until 2010.

From 2010 to 2014, Ian worked at Mozilla, primarily in the Mozilla Labs group. Ian worked on various projects, including the Apps initiative, and focused on collaboration and data-extraction problems. Ian then became an Engineering Manager for Cloud Services from 2014 to 2015, managing small teams working on service-related projects. Ian later took on the role of Engineering Manager for Hello from 2015 to 2016.

Ian's next position was at Mozilla as a Tech Lead for Firefox Screenshots from 2016 to 2019. Ian initiated the project and led the team that brought the Firefox Screenshots tool to market. Ian implemented behavioral data collection and worked with privacy, data, legal, and security reviewers. Ian successfully made Screenshots the first WebExtension-based feature in Firefox.

In 2019, Ian transitioned to the role of Staff Prototyping & Research Engineer in the Emerging Technologies / Mozilla Research group at Mozilla. Ian contributed to developing new product experiences in voice and voice-controlled web user agents. Ian also worked on Firefox Voice, a voice assistant for the web, until 2020.

Ian's most recent work experience is at Meta Reality Labs, where they became a Research Engineer in 2020. Ian worked in this role until 2022 before joining Brilliant.org in 2023 as a Product Prototyper.

Ian Bicking completed their undergraduate education from 1995 to 1999 at Earlham College, where they studied Mathematics and Computer Science. In 2017, they pursued an AI nanodegree at Udacity. In 2019, Ian attended altMBA for a short period, though the field of study and degree name for this program are not provided.