IAN DUNN

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EXPERIENCE

Associate Software Engineer | Oct 2024 - Present | Remote

Drove a $4M increase in annual revenue with an enterprise microservice to automatically assign price tiers.
Created a CSV ingestion pipeline from AWS S3 into MongoDB to process 5,500 records per minute.
Implemented a Kafka consumer to propagate near real-time updates to downstream billing systems.
Presented production changes to project stakeholders and documented handoff for client teams.

Freelance Software Developer | Mar 2025 - Present | Remote

Delivered end-to-end websites for small businesses, including a new client site with 130 monthly visitors.
Evaluated Software as a Medical Device systems for regulatory compliance during pharmaceutical quality audits.
Designed a custom CMS storefront using React, Spring Boot, and Postgres to provide control of product listings.

Software Security Team Lead | Mar 2023 - Aug 2023 | Rochester, NY

Developed a REST API suite using Spring Boot and JSON/XML manipulation to create and analyze SBOMs.
Led team planning meetings and presented burndown charts to leadership for each sprint.
Deployed a scalable back-end platform and a custom open-source analysis utility using Docker Compose.

PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas | Aug 2024 - Present

Developing a reinforcement learning trading agent that learns strategies using profit/loss reward functions.
Researching TD3 learning to model stock price movements using technical indicators and sentiment analysis.
Focusing on policy learning and simulation, with planned expansion to brokerage API integration.

React, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Docker | May 2025

Built a full-stack inventory management system using React, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL.
Designed REST APIs for CRUD operations, server-side image storage, and token-based authentication.
Automated deployment to a DigitalOcean Droplet using Docker Hub and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.

Python, Tkinter | Dec 2023 - May 2024

Created a Tkinter GUI application to capture brain activity in response to audiovisual stimuli.
Documented the project's usage and scalability for adaptation by other research teams.

Wheelchair Project Co-Investigator | Dec 2023 - May 2024 | Rochester, NY

Pioneered a brain-motor interface project to enable people with motor dystrophy to operate a motorized wheelchair.
Conducted an IRB-approved human subject research study to collect model training data.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | Aug 2021 - May 2024 | Rochester, NY

Languages: Java, Python, C#, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, SQL (Oracle, PostgreSQL), MongoDB, C, PHP, Bash

Frameworks: React, Node.js, Django, Flask, Express, Angular, Bootstrap, JUnit, Kafka, Nginx

Developer Tools: Git, Docker, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, OpenShift, JetBrains Suite, BitBucket, Ant

Libraries: NumPy, Pandas, SciKit-Learn, OpenAI Gym, Avro