# Ian M.

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ianm

Front-End: React, Redux, jQuery, Backbone, AngularJS
Back-End: Node, Express, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Knex/Bookshelf, PHP, Docker, Webpack
Miscellaneous: TypeScript, C, C++, MSVC, Qt, ARM, Objective-C, iOS

Worked for 3 years in Burbank at an animatronics company on both desktop editing software and embedded show controllers. Moved back to San Francisco to transition from the microcontroller world to web development.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Rippling
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Backend Engineer @ Nursa
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer @ Good Eggs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ TaskRabbit
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer II @ TaskRabbit
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
On the IKEA/Partnerships team, working on tighter integration with 3rd party partner services. Worked with React/Redux on the web frontend and Ruby on Rails with MySQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch on the backend. Also contributed to React Native apps for cross-team projects.
 
- Lead implementation of new ranking and auto-match algorithm to increase booking close rates based on daily metrics. The auto-match would also pick candidates with more capacity for the day to prevent all work from going to only the best ranked.
- Created a new NestJS based microservice to act as a source of truth for products. The products were stored in ElasticSearch for fuzzy searches across multiple languages. The products were updated via Google PubSub in near real-time to replace a bi-monthly API crawling process.
- Worked on converting the React/Redux frontend to TypeScript and increasing test coverage with React Testing Library. Acting as an advocate and mentor for others to also increase testability and good practices.
- Worked on infrastructure upgrades and dependency management for the frontend including upgrading webpack from version 3 to 5.

### Full Stack Engineer @ Riviera Partners
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full stack engineer working with a React frontend and a Ruby backend.

- Frontend lead on an advanced search interface with 30 modular filters to find people, companies, and jobs through ElasticSearch.
- Migrated a 70+ million row SQL table to partitioning by date range which sped up query time by 80%.
- Reduced frontend bloat by migrating from a defunct state management library to using Redux and Immutable.

### Software Engineering Fellow @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Presented algorithm and data structure solution lectures to students.
- Provided mentorship and support to about 100 students.

### Software Developer @ Gilderfluke & Co
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Burbank, CA
- Maintained and extended desktop editing software for animatronic show controllers.
- Converted legacy assembly firmware into C/C++ for ARM microcontrollers.
- Wrote a lightweight jQuery web interface that ran on and interacted with a backend running on an ARM microcontroller.


## Education
### Hack Reactor


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ianmobley

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Last updated: 2026-03-22