Ian Joseph Carrico

Bar Memberships: District of Columbia, Texas, & Virginia*

Professional Experience

Accenture Federal Services

Washington, DC
Cybersecurity, Supply Chain, and AI Risk Counsel
February 2026 – Present
  • Updates pending.

Covington & Burling, LLP

Washington, DC
Associate
September 2022 – February 2026
Summer Associate
May 2021 – July 2021
  • Represent clients with enterprise-scale cloud-based SaaS and PaaS offerings in DOJ and state attorneys general False Claims Act investigations that include complex cybersecurity frameworks such as FedRAMP, GovRAMP, and NIST SP 800-171 & 800-53
  • Draft and negotiate various purchase agreements to maximize success given particularized risk profiles and business objectives
  • Perform national security and cybersecurity deal diligence for clients in various sectors including technology, healthcare, and defense
  • Manage the full lifecycle of national security reviews by CFIUS and Team Telecom, including initial risk analysis, drafting full notices, and acting as the point of contact for all parties, ultimately guiding clients to successful closings
  • Prepare and manage changed conditions packages and new applications for facility clearance applications, including Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) mitigation packages
  • Manage cybersecurity incident response work flows, including analyzing client data loss and directing cybersecurity vendors
  • Pro bono: Represent low-income D.C. residents in various family matters including developing and executing a successful trial strategy to gain client increase in custody rights over child; represent veterans before military boards to secure discharge upgrades

Department of Justice, National Security Division

Washington, DC
Legal Intern, Office of Law and Policy
August 2021 – November 2021
  • Researched active legal matters for both domestic and international cases relevant to the office
  • Drafted memos to aid the office's ongoing policy development for the department

Federal Communications Commission

Washington, DC
Summer Intern, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Office of the Bureau Chief
May 2020 – August 2020
  • Drafted orders to further the Commission's policy goals concerning 5G spectrum usage
  • Researched novel areas of technology law, focusing on modern radio access networks and satellite spectrum
  • Summarized public comments related to rulemaking on wireless spectrum allocations
  • Organized several networking meetups for the summer intern class at the Commission

Vox Media

Houston, TX
Revenue Engineering Manager
October 2018 – August 2019
Senior Performance Engineer
July 2017 – September 2018
Performance Engineer
March 2015 – June 2017
  • Managed and led a team of five engineers to create a new line of revenue directly selling to partners
  • Tripled key advertising metrics by engineering innovative approach to all advertising code
  • Led all engineering & editorial teams to assess, design, and execute the migration to HTTPS across all brands
  • Analyzed performance setbacks to create and implement new performance standards for all engineering teams
  • Improved frontend performance of all Vox Media sites by over 50%

Four Kitchens

Austin, TX
Software Engineer
January 2012 – March 2015
Major clients: World Pulse The Economist NBC Yale School of Management
  • Consulted with clients to provide full-service project plans including vision, site architecture, technical guidelines, DevOps, and deployment processes
  • Planned, architected, and built global websites with a focus on user privacy, security, and performance
  • Created and taught paid courses across the globe to beginners and experts regarding cutting edge web development practices
  • Collaborated with other experts to build open source tools, push forward programming languages & inform others

Friday5

Austin, TX
Chief Technical Officer / Co-founder
July 2012 – October 2014
  • Architected and built donation platform with Network for Good APIs
  • Built web presence and designed signup workflow
  • Administered and maintained all server resources and DevOps infrastructure

SicolaMartin

Austin, TX
Junior Developer
July 2011 – January 2012
  • Led all development projects to provide custom or Drupal based websites
  • Built custom website frameworks to deploy a global marketing system for Dell Partners

Intel

Austin, TX
Drupal Developer / Intern
February 2011 – July 2011
  • Developed custom modules for Drupal to manage a group wide site with integration with internal tools and Active Directory
  • Worked with business divisions to ensure correct implementation of technology

Hensel Phelps Construction Co.

Greeley, CO
Server Administrator
May 2005 – August 2008
  • Provided computer support to the corporate office and midwestern district
  • Created and administered Access databases to allow employees to easily manage an invoice tracking system
  • Researched and implemented new solutions to efficiently control Microsoft Exchange and Spam server

Education

Georgetown University Law Center

Washington, DC
Juris Doctor
May 2022
Journal: Georgetown Law Technology Review (Assistant Editor, Articles)
Honors: Technology Law & Policy Scholar
Activities: OutLaw (Outreach Chair, LGBT Group), Between Two Codes (Founder, Podcast)
Clinic: Communications and Technology Law (Spring 2021)

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX
Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies (East Asia)
May 2011

Beijing Foreign Studies University

Beijing, China
IES Abroad Intensive Language Program
Fall 2009

University of Seville

Sevilla, Spain
Council on International Education Program
Summer 2009

Community Service

The Veterans Consortium

Washington, DC
Pro Bono Clinic
November 2019 – May 2022
  • Triage veterans' legal concerns to identify the important legal concern and refer them to an appropriate legal organization
  • Draft initial briefs of possible legal issues for appeals before the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

Office of George H.W. Bush

Houston, TX
Engineering Lead for One America Appeal and President & Mrs. Bush's Funerals
September 2017 – December 2018
  • Oversaw the distribution of thousands of invitations, managed RSVPs, and maintained the funeral technical systems
  • Collaborated with the Chief of Staff & other teams to build out funeral seating, distribute physical invitations, and assist VIPs
  • Anticipated and planned for several contingencies before the funerals to reduce possible complications
  • Engineered the web presence of the One America Appeal campaign in less than a week while collaborating with designers from the Office of President Obama yielding more than $42 million dollars in donations for hurricane relief
  • Devised and implemented a solution to a 3rd party's platform failing at launch within an hour, preventing the loss of millions of dollars in donations from being lost

Drupal Magic / Aurora

Project Lead
November 2012 – July 2015
  • Collaborate with community stakeholders to build an efficient front end framework used by over 10,000 websites

Sass Community

Austin, TX
ATX Sass Meetup Founder and Organizer
July 2014 – May 2015
Community Guidelines Author
July 2014

Order of Omega Honors Organization

Austin, TX
Vice President
Fall 2010 – Spring 2011

Tau Kappa Epsilon at The University of Texas

Austin, TX
Board of Advisors Member
January 2018 – Present
Vice President
Spring 2010 – Fall 2010
Secretary
Fall 2008

Speaking Engagements and Publications

Advertising Week

New York, NY
Hacking Programmatic: Technical Tips for Improving Yield & Performance
September 2017

South by Southwest

Austin, TX
DOM Ready: How Fast Load Times Alter User Behavior
March 2017

Net Magazine

Print publication
Tools for Painless Sass Development
November 2014

DrupalCon: Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Getting Content to a Phone in Less Than 1000ms
September 2014

SassConf

New York, NY
Take the Pain Out of Sass
October 2013

Talks also given at: DrupalCon Latin America, DrupalCamp Austin, DrupalCamp San Diego, NERD Summit, ATX Sass, Full Stack NH, NYC Camp, and the Bay Area Drupal Camp

Special Projects

Stuff in Houston

Houston, TX
Built to share fun things to eat and do in Houston
December 2017

Stuff in Austin

Austin, TX
Built for SassConf, a site built to share great things in Austin, TX
February 2016

Additional Information

Languages: English (native), Spanish (fluent), Mandarin (working proficiency)

Technology: Ruby, PHP, Databases (MySQL), Sass, Node/JavaScript, Linux, Docker, Ansible

Interests: Corde lisse performer, pie baker, founder of the SullyHWBush Instagram account, recreational swimmer

Awards: 2014 Young Developer of the Year Nominee, AVA Digital Awards 2015 Platinum (World Pulse), Best in Biz Awards 2015 Website of the Year (World Pulse), Silver Stevie International Business Award for Non-Profit Organization Website (World Pulse)