Ian Pointer

Ian Pointer is a ML Architect at bookend.ai since September 2023. Prior to this role, Ian worked as an Architect at Lucidworks from September 2018 to October 2023, and as a Director of Partner Engineering at Kogentix Inc. from September 2016 to September 2018. Ian's experience includes roles such as Principal Architect at Xavient Information Systems, Lead Consultant at Mammoth Data, and DevOps Engineer at ReverbNation. With a background in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, Ian has worked on various projects involving massive-scale AWS and Google Cloud Platform deployments, data pipelines with technologies like Kafka, Storm, and Spark, and analysis including recommendation engines and natural language parsing.