Ian's Portfolio

Hello! I'm Ian Edwards. I started my career in finance at one of the largest financial institutions BNY Mellon working with data analytics and large databases. I received an opportunity to work at Carta, a leading Fintech startup specializing in cap table software. I jumped at the opportunity to help young businesses and learn the venture capital space. Along the way I was exposed to the process of building and deploying software. While at Carta I was able to participate in a teamwide project to implement a financial model from excel to software deployment. It was incredibly exciting and a memory I would cherish in my career forever.

Soon after I continued my career in business consulting, joining Moss Adams. Then COVID19 hit and my family had difficulty obtaining work in Seattle, WA. This forced a relocation to Texas. While in Texas, I worked at one of the largest financial data providers, IHS Markit (now merged with S&P Global). There I was responsible for developing scalable excel models, acquiring data from internal software products, and speaking with high value clients. I could never quite shake the memory and passion I felt while assisting in the deployment of new software at Carta. I determined that I had to retrain myself and follow my passion for software engineering. I joined App Academy in November 2021.

I finished App Academy in May 2022. I received training in Javascript, Python, Express.js, SQLAlchemy, and many more software packages. But I am most proud of completing a group project Quickstater and a solo project NuMed. I have found my calling in building software. Capable of frontend engineering HTML, CSS, and Javascript by building dynamic webpages in a React/Redux framework while also using both Javascript and Python to build RESTful APIs as the backends of my projects. I am excited to see where being a software engineer takes me and the knowledge I will acquire along the way. But most importantly, I am exited to have the knowledge and the capability of assisting in solving complex business and software problems.