Ian Christian Myers
- Role
- Senior Engineering Manager
- Email Address
- ian@iancmyers.com
Currently
Airbnb
Senior Engineering Manager, 2019 – Today
Engineering Manager, 2016 – 2019
Senior Software Engineer, 2014 – 2016
I lead the web, iOS, Android, and service platform teams at Airbnb—an org of 35 engineers. In my role I set the high-level strategy and support the team on executing against our mission to improve the productivity of Airbnb engineers and enable developers to ship high quality code. Many of my team's projects have been featured on Airbnb's engineering blog:
- ts-migrate: A Tool for Migrating to TypeScript at Scale
- Server Rendering, Code Splitting, and Lazy Loading with React Router v4
- React Performance Fixes on Airbnb Listing Pages
I previously managed Airbnb's Accessibility team, which helps iOS, Android, and web engineers build accessible UIs.
Previously
Findery
Senior Software Engineer, 2012 – 2014
Lead development of the public API. Helped scale the website and private API to accommodate launch-day traffic.
Zappos
Senior Software Engineer, 2009 – 2012
Software Engineer, 2008 – 2009
Architected and lead the front-end development of a complete redesign while working on the front-end team at Zappos HQ. After transitioning to the Zappos Labs team, lead several experiments and projects.
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
BA, Politics, 2008
While studying Politics at UCSC I also made time for a number of Computer Science and Computer Engineering courses. I was a Research Assistant in the Computer Science department and guest lectured for a course called From Software Innovation to Social Enterpreneurship.