Ian Jennings is the founder of Haxor, a developer experience testing platform. Haxor tests and measures APIs, SDKs, and developer products with on-demand feedback from real developers. Previously, Ian co-founded developer meetup platform Hacker League, before spending 6 years at PubNub establishing their developer experience strategy. He also operates DevPort, a developer portfolio site populated by thousands of developers.
He has authored multiple software products including PubNub ChatEngine, a framework for building chat applications, and Project EON, a library for creating real-time maps and charts. Previously Ian has worked with Facebook, Wordpress, ESPN, Bitly, and Hype Machine. He has shipped products on platforms like Google Glass, Spotify, Chrome Web Store, Desktop (Electron), iPhone, and Android. Ian has a membership at ATX Hackerspace and volunteers at the Thinkery, a children's STEM museum.
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The L Magazine
"Most of us are lucky if we can even afford to buy the latest techno-gadget. But Williamsburg-based hacker Ian Jennings is actually the one inventing them. He cofounded (along with fellow Rutgers students Mike Swift and Abe Stanway) Hacker League, a site devoted to simplifying the organization of intensely collaborative tech events known as "hackathons." Jennings recently pretty much guaranteed that he'll always be able to keep himself stocked up on techno-gadgets with the sale of Hacker League to Intel's Mashery subdivision for the price of more than a few PCs. But he's not done. In fact, his latest invention, Mote.io, is a remote that connects your web browser with various music platforms like Pandora, Youtube, and Rdio, and has gotten raves on tech sites like GigaOM; he’s also in the midst of developing the Reddit app for the uber-hyped tech accessory Google Glass. So when Brooklyn is in dire need of a Marty Markowitz hologram? We'll know just who to call."
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The Observer
"When he’s in front of people, Ian Jennings, the 20-year-old hacker from New Brunswick, stands over his laptop like a DJ at a club, feet planted far apart and further out than they need to be, back hunched, arms stretched out. He talks fast and has piercings in both ears and in his lip. His pointy black hair looks like that of an anime character, and the straight-brimmed black hat that sits carefully askew on top of his head does not come off."
Clients
Amazon Web Services
Facebook
SAP
ESPN
Snap
Timehop
Wordpress
Bit.ly
Sterling
Blockstack
Hype Machine
Contently
PubNub
Major League Hacking
Specialties
Developer Experience
Developer Advocacy
Product Prototyping
Founder, Small Teams, Startups
Skills
Javascript
NodeJS
Documentation
Hacking and Hackathons
Engineering Culture
APIs
Streaming and real-time
Distributed Systems
Branding
Frameworks
Websockets
Experience
Haxor
Founder
Austin, TX · February 2018 – Present
PubNub
Developer Experience
Austin, TX · October 2013 – February 2018
Hype Machine
Front End Developer
Brooklyn, NY · February 2012 – June 2013
Hacker League (Acquired)
Founder
New Brunswick, NJ · September 2011 – December 2013
22Pixels.com
Founder
New Brunswick, NJ · 2005 – 2013
Devport.co
Founder
Austin, TX · 2013 – Present
ScreenSquid.com
Founder
Austin, TX · 2016 – 2018
User Interface Engineer (Intern)
Menlo Park, CA · June 2011 – September 2011
Bit.ly, Betaworks
HackNY Fellow and Intern
New York, NY · June 2010 – September 2010
Education
Rutgers University
BS in Information Technology and Informatics
New Brunswick, NJ · September 2008 – May 2012