Ian McKinney

EHMA.ai | Tempe, AZ

Lead a team of engineers building an AI-first, direct-to-consumer Next.js/ React SPA (TypeScript) to streamline solar home sales. Coordinate chat workflows integrating RAG-based AI agents, API gateways, Freshworks CRM, and NetSuite ERP. Implement comprehensive automated testing utilizing Playwright and Jest for QA, unit tests

• Direct AI integration and application development for a startup real estate and solar tech company, utilizing Claude and ChatGPT within Visual Studio and Cursor to build out a core suite of web applications.
• Established a Claude Code guidelines markdown framework to manage and optimize AI coding behavior.
• Automated internal workflows and streamlined business development processes through AI integrations.
• Optimized meta data for SEO, specifically structuring content to improve visibility within modern AI indexing.
• Embedded Stripe payment processing to handle secure customer loan applications, subscription requests.

Reily Capital | Detroit, MI (Remote)

Sourced and evaluated residential acquisition opportunities across the Detroit market, identifying high-potential fix-and-flips, short-term rentals (Airbnbs), and long-term rental properties for private investors. Executed precise financial modeling and ARV analyses, applying strict 70% After Repair Value (ARV) thresholds to evaluate renovation budgets, potential margins, and deal viability.

• Leveraged Privy.pro for market intelligence, researching comparable sales, analyzing historical price trends, and identifying off-market properties in partnership with local realtors.
• Cultivated strategic industry networks, communicating actively with brokers, realtors, lenders, title companies, and investors to accelerate deal flow and transaction speed.
• Managed end-to-end deal pipelines using GoHighLevel CRM while directing daily team operations and communications through Discord.

HR Workplace Services | Scottsdale, AZ

Managed development for a small team, partnering closely with product owners to scope out new functionality. Evaluated emerging technologies and drove UX initiatives to deliver a clean, intuitive user experience.

• Rearchitected the myHRWS enterprise web application, integrating a custom Vue-based UI component library and design system to streamline development across the HRWS suite.
• Led UX research initiatives to refine end-user engagement strategies, resulting in enhanced functional workflows for annual employee enrollment and employer reviews.
• Directed automation projects and modern build tool integrations, establishing optimized development patterns and automated testing frameworks to elevate code quality.
• Guided technical architecture for Salesforce-focused enterprise application and managing API integrations.
• Collaborated with marketing and product owners to gather, organize, and document detailed functional requirements for upcoming application features.
• Implemented a secure electronic signature and dynamic PDF proposal pipeline for the myHRWS application.

Ping Identity | Denver, CO

Led the UX engineering team, collaborating closely with product managers and designers to build and maintain Ping’s suite of applications. Implemented a design system and established a testing framework to ensure quality.

• Managed the roadmap for a React UI web component library, establishing reusable design patterns for distribution across the entire Ping application ecosystem.
• Led UX engineering for the redesign of PingFederate (Ping Identity’s flagship on-premises product) and directed responsive web development efforts for Cloud Directory and PingOne applications.
• Guided the architectural redesign of the PingAccess application, successfully integrating React alongside a robust Jest unit testing and code coverage framework.
• Coordinated development of a secure browser extension, enabling password vaulting coupled with SSO.
• Implemented core API integrations across the PingOne Dock/ SSO, Admin Portal, and PingFederate.
• Developed a successful Salesforce Chatter proof-of-concept (PoC) to showcase integration with PingOne.