Ian Small

Ian Small is Senior Vice President of Products for Mark Logic Corporation, and has been with the company since it was funded.

Ian is responsible for product definition and delivery, a role that covers product strategy, roadmap and definition, product design and development, and quality assurance and delivery. As a result, Ian spends a lot of time thinking about how MarkLogic Server can best be used, whether it's for new classes of applications or for thorny XQuery optimizations.

Ian still writes code, although mostly these days it's in XQuery, as he rarely ventures into the C++ bowels of the server, prefering instead to issue (what he considers) helpful advice to his development team. Between specifying the next generation of the server, meeting with customers about breakthrough applications, and resolving support issues with production deployments, Ian gets to see both the best (and the worst) of what MarkLogic Server and content applications have to offer — all of which provides excellent fodder for his column Small Changes.