Hi, I’m Ian Peterson

Software Engineer @ Apryse

Ian Peterson

About Me

I’m a Denver-based software engineer at Apryse, passionate about building cool games and apps, learning new tech, and pursuing creative projects. When I'm not debugging, you'll find me enjoying the world, playing games, or refactoring… again.

CCPPJavaAngular & React.NETGodotUnityVulkanOpenGLTypeScriptNext.jsZigSDL2OpenVR

Featured Projects

Real-time Online Multiplayer Game

Real-time Online Multiplayer Game

AirshipVR Game

AirshipVR Game

Resume

Software engineer with 6+ years building and shipping production software and developer tooling across the full development lifecycle, with deep low-level and systems experience in C, C++, C#, and Java. Selected to lead a 15–20 person GenAI community of practice serving a 500+ employee organization, driving practical adoption of AI-assisted engineering.

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Technical Skills

Languages
CC++C#JavaTypeScript / JavaScriptPythonZigSQL
Frameworks & UI
AngularReactNext.js.NETOpenGL / WebGL / VulkanSDL2
Cloud & DevOps
AWSAzureDockerCI/CD pipelinesGitJira
Practices
System designAgile / sprintsAI-assisted workflowsPerformance optimizationOLTP/OLAP

Professional Experience

Software Engineer @ Apryse

May 2023 – Present

Fluent Engine & Designer (document automation) — Denver, CO

  • Design and ship new features for the Fluent Engine and Designer in Java and C#, owning work from design through release within a large cross-functional organization.
  • Improved performance on the flagship Fluent Engine by 10%, contributing to the scalability and reliability of a core product serving a large active customer base.
  • Explored an AI-powered DOCX template generation concept for the Fluent ecosystem, allowing users to generate working document templates from a data source and a natural-language prompt; contributed integration ideas across existing developer tooling.

GenAI Chapter Lead @ Apryse

2026 – Present

Concurrent with engineering role — cross-functional, company-wide

  • Selected to lead a 15–20 person GenAI community of practice serving a 500+ employee organization, spanning engineers, technical product stakeholders, and contributors across the company.
  • Led AI enablement across engineering and product teams — running monthly chapter meetings, working groups, and enablement sessions, and building and presenting internal training on GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
  • Developed emerging standards and patterns for AI-assisted development, evaluating and prototyping GenAI product integrations and moving AI initiatives from early ideas into actionable engineering workflows and prototypes.

Software Engineer Intern @ Lockheed Martin

Aug 2020 – May 2021

Part-time, concurrent with Windward Studios

  • Implemented machine learning algorithms to play a simulated wargame, applying algorithm design and data science to a complex decision-making problem.

Software Engineer @ Windward Studios

Mar 2020 – May 2023

Acquired by Apryse / PDFTron

  • Built a new customer-facing application from initial planning through MVP launch and post-release maintenance in a small startup environment.
  • Sole owner of the migration of a legacy customer-facing storefront to a modern Angular framework, improving the maintainability, security, and performance of a crucial product with a large active user base.

Selected Projects

  • AI-assisted development workflows — Designed agentic development workflows running parallel autonomous coding agents, with automated verification pipelines (build, cross-compilation, determinism checks) and audit-trail logging — directing AI agents while owning architecture and quality.
  • Real-time Multiplayer Browser Game — Networked client-server game with a backing database, solving real-time communication and state-sync challenges. github.com/Uvecrep/WackyTanks

Leadership

Founder & Lead Videographer, Atlas Institute — CU Boulder (2018–2020)

Founded and led a team producing in-depth video coverage of campus research and events.

Education

B.S. Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder

Minor in Creative Technology & Design · May 2021

Contact

Got a project idea or just want to say hi? Shoot me an email:

ian@peterson-family.com