Ian Laird

5204 Patterson Road
Bozeman, Montana MT 59718 US

Toast

Software Development Engineer II

• Implemented an API for generating user metric reports.
• Migrated existing database management code into its own microservice, which simplified automated testing and improved the pipeline resiliency.

Capital One

Senior Associate Software Engineer

• Saved Capital One hundreds of thousands per year in operating costs and hundreds of developer hours per year by decommissioning a cloud hosted legacy application.
• Constructed a Java microservice that transferred tens of thousands of files between systems of record to comply with internal audit requirements.
• Created a data pipeline for the aggregation of big data from secure s3 buckets / snowflake tables. Computations are performed by spark on an EMR cluster that is managed by a containerized Java microservice.
• Increased Cloud Resiliency by creating infrastructure needed for applications to quickly fail over to a backup AWS region.
• Revamped IAM roles and policies to comply with stricter internal requirements.

Associate Software Engineer

• Developed a web application for tracking automotive finance fraud.
• Gathered design requirements for website improvements directly from users.
• Improved automated testing of the application by expanding E2E, unit, and integration tests.
• Participated in multiple AWS regional rollovers.

Baylor University

Independent Researcher

• Researched improving microservices through the automated analysis of byte code and source code.
• Developed a cloud based code clone detection service as part of a larger project for generating a centralized perspective on microservice based enterprise applications.
• Developed a tool for generating communication diagrams for java source code.
• Developed a novel method of generating a bounded context for a system.

ICPC

Software Development Intern

• Facilitated the migration to a React / Java EE website from the legacy application.
• Worked directly with users to investigate bugs.
• This application is currently in use by over 50,000 users across the globe.

Southwest Montana Properties

IT Intern

• Responsible for maintaining all communication devices and computers. This included provisioning and fixing Cisco IP phones, maintaining employee email, and repairing computers as necessary.

Baylor University

Courses

• Operating Systems
• Data Communications
• Computation Theory
• Data Structures
• Algorithms

Montana State University

Georgia Tech

Courses

• Information Security

AWS Solutions Architect

Java

C / C++

SQL

Python

JavaScript