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Ian Hook
Principal Engineer
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Location: San Francisco, California, United StatesApprox. Years of Experience: 20
Ian Hook's Current Workplace
Lime
Company Size
1001-2500
Amount Raised
$1.5B
Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company. We’re on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Our electric bikes and scooters have powered 400+ million rides in 250+ cities on 5 continents, replacing an estimated 100+ million car trips. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company and Fast Company Brand That Matters, we achieved a fully profitable year in 2022, becoming the first in our industry to reach this milestone.
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Notable Investors
Apple, Uber, Andreessen Horowitz, Fifth Wall, IVP
CleanTech
GreenTech
Smart Cities
Transportation
Sharing Economy
Electric Vehicle
Fleet Management
Last Mile Transportation
Experience
Lime
Jun 2018 - Present
Principal Engineer
Dec 2021 - Present
3 yrs 5 mos
Software Engineer
Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
3 yrs 7 mos
Senior Software Engineer
OpenDNS - now a part of Cisco
Apr 2015 - Jun 2018
3 yrs 3 mos
CTO
Relevvant
Feb 2011 - Apr 2015
4 yrs 3 mos
- Responsible for setting overall technical vision, team leadership, and core engineering that helped Relevvant scale. - Designed and implemented a cross channel marketing orchestration platform that used targeted SMS and email to engage and collect data from users. - Built and managed small engineering team to define the architecture and design/implement common components necessary to productize new analytical applications at scale on the cloud. - Led and executed on a migration of MySQL to SAP HANA/Casandra to split analytic and data warehousing workloads as well as improve query time on complex queries by as much as 14x. - Launched and designed a highly scalable backend using Gearman for message queuing, which in many cases allowed us to easily saturate third party pipelines, and do background batch processing easily. - Defined and managed Proof Of Concept projects to demonstrate new use-cases for real time data analysis - Integrated the product with such third party platforms such as Facebook, ExactTarget, OpenMarket and more. - Acted in the role of dev ops for our AWS backed servers, defining standards to allow managed continuous deployment of a highly complex environment
Web Application Developer
Tencent America
Jun 2008 - Jan 2011
2 yrs 8 mos
Designed and implemented a PHP framework to allow plug and play integration of flash based web games into Facebook. Work with all facets of the Facebook platform (FBML, XFBML, FBJS, REST API, JS SDK) Designed and developed an analytics suite, including the integration of Kontagent and additional core functionality internally Developed an A/B testing interface of stream posts to allow easy analysis of stream effectiveness Designed and lead development on a JSON flash interface to allow easy maintenance on Facebook integration to keep up with Facebook’s changing API Architected and maintained a database in MYSQL of user activities within social game Helped the design and production teams understand the Facebook functionality and how it could be used to increase user engagement as well as any limitations it may impose Did every single piece of Facebook API integration for all released social games, including Published User Actions, Invites, Notifications, Dashboards, etc Designed and implemented a versioned release method using SVN to promote code from testing to live environments
System Programmer
O&k America Corp
Jan 2007 - Jun 2008
1 yr 6 mos
Headed web development initiatives coding in JSP and JavaScript Managed the company’s Apache Tomcat web servers Transitioned user environment from green screen to more user friendly web based GUIs Profiled existing code to create specs for new web based programs and provided better documentation for users Planned, developed and implemented new analytical tools to improve user efficiency Redesigned company database while maintaining functionality on existing programs Debugged and updated legacy code in RPGIV/ILE and CL Used the Toyota Production System both as a method to guide my own work behavior and as a functional requirement for new programs Worked with a team of both English and Japanese speakers
Assistant System Coordinator
Nippon Express
Aug 2005 - Jan 2007
1 yr 6 mos
Member of a committee to improve the programming environment with a focus on security and standardization Assisted internal users operating in-house systems often by searching through code to find the flows in question Worked with end-users to define requirements for new programs and to improve older functions Debugged and improved programs written in RPG/CL which were critical to the companies' global business Made modifications to existing code to implement requirements for local business so that the code could be shared with global partners Performed version control maintenance to ensure code created or revised by our global partners could be safely integrated into our system Worked with a team of both English and Japanese speakers in a working environment modeled after the Japanese style
Education
  • 2001 - 2005
    University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBS, Computer Science