Ian Brown

Ian Brown is an experienced engineering leader currently serving as the Manager of the JVM Ecosystem team at Netflix.12 He joined Netflix in this role in October 2021 and is based in Los Gatos, California.2

Career History

Prior to his current position, Ian has held several leadership roles in prominent tech companies:

1. At Netflix:

   • Manager, Performance Engineering (July 2022 - November 2023)2

2. At Twitter:

   • Sr. Engineering Manager, Chargeback and Infrastructure Utilisation
   • Sr. Engineering Manager, Kernels & Operating Systems
   • Sr. Engineering Manager, JVM Team
   • Sr. Engineering Manager, Foundational Platform Services
   • Sr. Engineering Manager, Observability2

3. At Salesforce.com:

   • Senior Manager, Software Development
   • Manager, Software Development2

4. At Rearden Commerce:

   • Manager, Engineering Services
   • Principal Engineer2

Responsibilities at Netflix

As the Manager of the JVM Ecosystem team at Netflix, Ian Brown works with software engineers to improve Netflix's build processes, making them faster, cheaper, and easier.2 His team is responsible for:

• Providing user experience for dependency management, building, packaging, and publishing JVM-based libraries and applications1
• Managing and providing guidance on how to optimize the use of build tools like Gradle1
• Overseeing JDK usage at Netflix, ensuring smooth upgrades to new LTS versions1

Expertise and Interests

Ian Brown describes himself as an "XML apologist" and "Erlang enthusiast".3 His experience spans various areas of software engineering, including:

• Performance engineering
• JVM optimization
• Infrastructure utilization
• Operating systems and kernels
• Observability
• Release engineering and tooling

His LinkedIn username is indeed "ianbrown".2