My name is Ian Ross. I’m a software developer living in southern Austria with my wife Rita and our two podencos, Margarita (“Maggie”) and Rubia (“Ruby”). Until August 2024, we shared our lives with our beloved beagle mix Winnie, but she has now sadly left us.

I started out as a physicist, but more recently I’ve been working as a freelance programmer and data analyst. I’ve worked in programming-centred jobs for nearly 30 years, in fields as diverse as climate model development, programming language tools, and sonar (naval and scientific).

I’m available for contracting work—take a look here if you have an interesting project you think I could help you with!

You can find my CV here.

My projects pages are a bit of electronics, a bit of programming.

I’ve written some tutorials, mostly about embedded programming topics.

I have a blog, where I write intermittently.

There’s a more detailed about page here.