Ian Read
Chief Technology Officer at Macalytics - The Shopify SEO app
King's Lynn and West Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Read is a product-minded CTO and principal engineer with three decades of software experience and a PhD in NLP/AI, currently leading engineering and product for Macalytics and Blink SEO to build scalable SaaS for eCommerce SEO. He blends hands-on full‑stack delivery—from API and data-visualisation work to automated testing and cloud deployment—with product design and user research to prioritise features that drive measurable ROI. Ian has a strong track record of rescuing and optimising mission-critical systems (notably rebuilding a high-frequency ticketing API to near-zero failure rates) and has led distributed teams of 15–20 engineers in enterprise and B2B SaaS contexts. He is equally comfortable architecting data pipelines and NLP microservices as he is shaping company strategy, and outside work he’s an avid mountain biker—a hobby that mirrors his preference for thoughtful risk-taking and endurance in software projects.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma Computer Studies, BTEC National Diploma Computer Studies at City College NorwichPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of East Anglia
Github Skills (104)
vue-table10
react-table10
charting10
excel10
pagination10
grouping10
datagrid10
facilities10
filtering10
cert10
prepare10
sorting10
grid10
kebab-case10
keyword-extraction9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
readikus/royston
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
News trend library
Contributions:1 review, 38 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 10 months
nlpmachine-learningtrendstrendnews
readikus/lsajs
Feb 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
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