Ian Dawson

Ian Dawson is a software engineer who is currently employed at Upright Labs. Ian has previous experience working at Unchained Logistics and Shyp. At Unchained Logistics, they created a well-tested Order Management System rails app from the ground up and also built and maintained multiple 3rd party API integrations. Ian also built an Order Routing tool to automatically route orders to the optimal warehouse. At Shyp, they built backend API features and internal tools that helped make shipping easier. Ian also created bulk shipment APIs and user interfaces which contributed to reduced warehouse processing time for large daily shipments. Ian also enabled the sales team to acquire and keep lucrative businesses by creating user shipping discounts and an interface for sales to manage those discounts. Furthermore, they ensured high service availability for production systems by deploying well-tested node.js and go code. Ian also migrated our build process to docker containers which cut our continuous integration test times down by roughly 50%.

Ian Dawson attended Portland State University, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in German. Ian also studied Economics, German, and Mathematics at Linfield University. Ian is a graduate of Nestucca Valley High School.

Ian Dawson reports to Jackson Geller, CTO. Some of their coworkers include Patrick Boatner - Senior Software Engineer, David Lobosco - Senior Software Engineer.