Ian Whitestone
GM Of SELECT at DoiT
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Whitestone is a data-driven founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building production analytics and optimization platforms. As co-founder and CEO of SELECT (now part of DoiT), he leads a Snowflake cost-management product that serves 200+ customers and oversees optimization of over $250M in cloud spend. Previously he led data science teams at Shopify and held senior data science roles at Capital One, bringing deep expertise in query performance, data warehouse economics, and scaling analytics teams. Based in Toronto with a chemical engineering background from Queen’s, Ian combines analytical rigor with hands-on product building—often translating low-level performance wins into measurable ROI for customers. He’s actively hiring across data, software and sales engineering, reflecting a founder who still ships and scales technical solutions himself.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Strathcona-Tweedsmuir SchoolBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) with Professional Internship, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) with Professional Internship, Chemical Engineering at Queen's University
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Github Skills (200)
probabilistic-programming10
parallel10
python10
mcmc10
parallel-computing10
serverless10
pydata10
bayesian-inference10
flask10
zappa10
django10
pandas10
pyramid10
dbt-packages10
serverless-applications10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ian-whitestone/canada-fsa-mapper
Mar 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
ian-whitestone/toronto-apartment-finder
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:82 commits, 56 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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