About Ian Sherman

Ian Sherman is Head of Software at Formant, a company building cloud infrastructure for robotics. Prior to Formant, Ian led engineering teams at Google X and Bot & Dolly. The through line of his career has been tool building, for engineers and artists alike. He’s inspired by interdisciplinary collaboration of all types; currently this takes the form of applying patterns and practices from distributed systems operations to emerging applications in robotics. Ian earned his BA in Computer Science from Brown University.