Ian Anderson
Co-founder & CTO at Malachyte
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIan Anderson is a Co-founder and CTO with 11+ years translating physics-grade rigor into production AI systems, most recently leading large-scale ML engineering and research at Spotify where he re-architected user understanding and recommendation stacks and chaired the ML Advisory Board. He brings deep experience optimizing billion-parameter models under millisecond latency constraints, authoring papers and patents that influenced product features like Discover Weekly and Daylist. A recovering physicist with a PhD tied to the Higgs discovery, he combines statistical modeling and distributed computing expertise with a craft-focused approach to engineering and a bias for simplifying complexity. Now building at Malachyte, he’s motivated by collaborative systems and cultivating engineering environments that let teams ship pragmatic, lasting ML infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
csv9
hnswlib9
python6
java6
machine-learning5
nearest-neighbor-search3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ijanderso/PhDThesis
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:15 pushes in 6 months
usarica/CombinationPy
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.