Ian Stanfield

Tactical Software Engineer

I’m an American software engineer living in Tokyo, Japan. A purveyor of clean code, I enjoy learning and leveraging new technologies to build interesting products and solutions.

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Email

ian.alexander.stanfield@gmail.com

LinkedIn

Ian Stanfield

GitHub

istanfield09

Experience

Feb 2019 – present

Software Development Engineer at Rakuten

Rakuten is a Japanese web services company with businesses spanning e-commerce, digital content, communications, and financial technology.

Highlights

• Currently I am developing merchant and customer facing services targeting Taiwanese and US marketplaces with Ruby on Rails, Angular, RabbitMQ, and other technologies.
• Prior to my merchant-facing role, I built customer-facing features for Rakuten Global Market with Ruby on Rails, React, and Docker.

Apr 2018 – Oct 2018

Software Developer at Lagunitas Brewing Company

Lagunitas Brewing Company is an irreverant brewery out of Northern California, with beer available in more than 20 countries.

Highlights

• At Lagunitas I developed back office applications and services for brewing, packaging, and laboratory management with Django, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, and beer.

Jun 2017 – Sep 2017

Software Engineer Intern at Delphix

Delphix is a pioneer and innovator in the data management and virtualization space.

Highlights

• For my internship at Delphix I implemented a tool to manage, deploy, and version control Delphix's infrastructure monitoring configuration using Python, Datadog, and Jenkins. I presented the project to a company-wide engineering forum at the conclusion of my internship.

Jun 2016 – Sep 2016

Software Engineer Intern at Rakuten

Highlights

• During my first tour of duty at Rakuten I built internal tools with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, CoffeeScript, and Capistrano. I also made small contributions to Rakuten Global Market with the team I would rejoin several years later.

Jan 2016 – May 2016

Software Development Intern at BlackBerry

BlackBerry is a Canadian technology company that develops security and IoT solutions for enterprise companies all over the world.

Highlights

• At BlackBerry I implemented features and a comprehensive automated testing suite for a predicitive security appliance and enterprise collaboration application with Python, DJango, MongoDB, JavaScript, Meteor, Cucumber, and Selenium WebDriver.

Skills

Python

Level: Master

Keywords:

• Django
• Django REST Framework
• Celery

Ruby

Level: Master

Keywords:

• Ruby on Rails
• RSpec
• Capistrano

JavaScript

Level: Intermediate

Keywords:

• Angular
• React
• CoffeeScript
• TypeScript

DevOps & Infrastructure

Level: Novice

Keywords:

• Datadog
• Ansible
• Jenkins
• Amazon Web Services

Education

Nov 2014 – Mar 2018

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Oregon State University with GPA of 3.7

Courses

Languages

English

Fluency: Native speaker

Japanese

Fluency: Elementary proficiency

Interests

Software Development

Keywords:

• Data Science & Machine Learning
• Information Retrieval & NLP
• Functional Programming
• Java
• Python
• Docker & Kubernetes
• Infrastructure & DevOps

Finance & Investing

Keywords:

• Portfolio Management
• Financial Analysis
• Machine Learning & Finance
• Jack Bogle