Summary
Brian Burns is a senior engineering manager specializing in AI who builds production-grade ML systems that process and enrich over a billion social media messages daily, focusing on spam detection, moderation, prioritization, and PII protection. With 15+ years delivering measurable impact across NLP, transformers, and LLMs, he leads multidisciplinary teams to turn research into low-latency, enterprise-scale platforms. His work spans e-commerce personalization and industrial IoT—driving multi-million dollar revenue lifts and cost savings through recommendation engines and predictive maintenance products. Brian combines technical rigor with product-minded leadership, having founded internal GenAI working groups and advised Georgia Tech’s MS Analytics curriculum. He’s also active in professional communities (INFORMS Chicago VP) and has a history of practical open-source contributions from his Uptake tenure.
9 years of coding experience