Ian Fijolek

Ian Fijolek is a Senior Technical Lead at Yelp, where responsibilities include guiding the future of the Marketing Platform and mentoring emerging engineering leaders. Ian has held various leadership roles at Yelp, such as Director of Engineering, where efforts focused on enhancing the productivity of Sales, Marketing, and Finance teams, and Engineering Manager, overseeing the Sales & Marketing and Finance Engineering teams. Prior to Yelp, Ian worked as a Salesforce Software Engineer at LivingSocial and a Senior Consultant in Business Analytics at IBM, where tasks included data analysis and client presentations. Ian's early career features roles at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an EWS Lab Consultant and an internship with the National Transportation Safety Board, contributing to software development and data recovery efforts. Ian holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.