Ian Pleasance is a highly-skilled and experienced senior architect, designer, and developer of Internet and web/mobile applications and infrastructure technology. With a focus on large-scale, scalable system architecture, he specializes in engineering team leadership and DevOps practices, including tool development, creation of workflow and continuous delivery processes, automation, scaling, and monitoring. Ian's expertise also spans content ingest/transformation and publishing, news publishing and workflows, integration of social media and mobile content, eCommerce, accessibility, and integration of different technologies and platforms.

Ian's skill areas include systems architecture and systems integration, project methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban), continuous integration and deployment, digital asset management, feed ingest and export, multi-channel publishing, digital media transcoding and manipulation, team lead and mentoring. He is proficient in many languages, including Python, PHP, Perl, Javascript, NodeJS, C, C++, Java, Assembler, GoLang, and has experience with various OSs, virtualization platforms, databases, HTTP servers/caches, CDN, SMTP servers, DNS, CMSs, ePayment gateways, social media integration, calendar and map integration, web/data search engines, VoIP, video streaming and transcoding, WAI/web accessibility, web analytics, and DevOps tools.

Aside from technology, Ian has also worked in television documentary production, on-location filming and reportage, and video editing and other post-production. Ian is currently the Principal Engineer and Architect at Just Eat Takeaway, formerly held the same position at JUST EAT, was the Technical Director and Co-Founder at Mindings, and was the Owner and Consultant at Planetbuilders Ltd.