Ian Carey

Engineer | Creator of systemscheck.dev

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Ian is a maker and software engineer based in Ireland. He's spent the past decade working across the stack, now as a Staff Software Engineer at Toast, with earlier roles at Nory, Intercom, Kitman Labs, and Accenture. When he's not shipping code, he's building robots for YouTube, writing on his blog, or training in CrossFit and Olympic weightlifting. His latest project, Systems Check, is a sci-fi engineering puzzle game where you play a cadet engineer on the starship Orion, fixing problems to keep the ship flying.

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systemscheck.devA sci-fi systems check for your programming brain
Sep 2026

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systemscheck.dev - A sci-fi systems check for your programming brain

Lots of people will know of my obsession with programming puzzles. No longer content with just solving them, I decided to start creating and publishing my own. SystemsCheck is an engineering puzzle game set aboard the starship Orion. You play a cadet, handed alarming requests by a chief engineer with questionable delegation instincts. Solve each one by writing code against your own puzzle input. No set cadence, the puzzle corpus just keeps growing. Try it and let me know what you think!