# Ian Tracey

> Applied AI at Ramp

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/iantracey

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I'm an impact-driven, full-stack software engineer who is passionate about building products and organizations that enrich the lives of millions of people and communities around the world.

https://ian.so


Languages: Javascript/Typescript/NodeJS, Python, Ruby, C++
Frontend: React, Redux, Apollo, ES6
Backend: Flask, ExpressJS, GraphQL, Rails,
Infrastructure: Docker, AWS, Hadoop, Spark/PySpark/SparkSQL
Databases: Postgres, DynamoDB, Hive/Presto, RocksDB
Design: Figma, Storybook
Machine Learning: Logistic Regression, Random Forest

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI @ Ramp
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, NY
Building agents to automate financial operations

### Angel Investor @ Various Startups
Jan 2021 – Present
Seed and Series A investor in companies like Headgum, Airhouse, and Density.

### Co-founder & CEO @ Turntable (YC W23)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Co-founder & CTO @ Turntable (YC W23)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built AI-powered data tools for 1000s of leading organizations around the world. We raised $3.2M from top tier investors like YCombinator, Nat Friedman, Matrix Partners, SV Angel and Liquid2.

### Tech Lead / Engineering @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
ML ranking, hosted UI products

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
Scaling Pinterest with one of the best growth engineering teams in the valley to over 400M+ MAU and $XB in revenue.

Did a bunch of everything: ML engineering, full-stack product, wrote a lot of SQL queries.

### Software Engineer @ Atlassian
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Helped create Atlassian Guard. Built out Atlassian's cross-product analytics stack, kicking off my love for data & analytics.

### Software Engineer @ LATITUDE ENGINEERING, LLC (Acquired by L3)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Tucson, AZ
Built drone swarm cloud infrastructure for DARPA from scratch. Crashed a lot of tiny drones and a few big ones.

Company acquired by L3

### Co-Founder and President @ Hack Arizona
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Tucson, Arizona
Served 4000 students, raised $500,000 in sponsorship from top-tier technology companies such as Amazon, Google, Nest, Microsoft, IBM, Wolfram Alpha, Cisco and Twilio

The time of my life

### Co-Founder & Technical Principal @ Hydrant
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Tucson, Arizona Area
My first company in college was a software development shop for early entrepreneurs. Learned a ton, wrote a lot of ruby, and stayed up late.


## Education
### W23
Y Combinator

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
University of Arizona

### Minor in Mathematics
University of Arizona


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/itracey
- Website: https://ian.so

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Last updated: 2026-04-07