Ian Burton
Founder at Stealth AI Startup
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Burton is a data-driven product leader and founder with 11+ years of experience turning advanced analytics into measurable growth and product improvements. He has led analytics teams at scale—from building Gopuff’s first product research function and streamlining event taxonomies to driving product innovation as Principal Product Manager at Walmart—delivering wins in retention, CLV, fraud detection, and chatbot performance. Ian combines hands-on technical chops (including backend contributions to a popular Go Slack client focused on socket mode reliability) with strategic fluency in CDPs, causal inference, and ML-driven experimentation. He’s skilled at collapsing noisy event ecosystems into focused semantic frameworks that accelerate insight generation and reduce redundancy. Known for translating complex models into executive-ready roadmaps and automations that save hundreds of staff-hours, he now applies that blend of product, analytics, and engineering to a stealth AI startup.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Data Analytics, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Data Analytics at Radford University - College of Business and EconomicsBachelor's Degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy at Radford University
English
Github Skills (11)
golang10
error-handling10
websocket10
go10
websockets-client10
websocket-client10
slack10
client-websocket10
concurrency10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
slack-go/slack
Dec 2022 - Aug 2023
Slack API in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 3 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on enhancing the `socketmode` functionality within the Slack API client. Their contributions involved fixing concurrency issues related to channel closure and error handling within the `socketmode.Client.run` function. They also refactored code to improve error management and streamlined the Ack and Send operations for Socket Mode responses. Further work included restructuring event handling and implementing a more efficient deadman timer mechanism, which improves reliability and performance.
golangslackapislack-apigo
VerticalOps/golang-socketio
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
golang socket.io client and server
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 months
golangsocketwebsocketssocket-iosocketio
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