Ian Anderson is Co-founder and CTO at Malachyte, a behavior intelligence company bringing real-time AI personalization to consumer e-commerce brands across every channel.

Ian studied at The Johns Hopkins University and spent over a decade building AI and personalization infrastructure at Spotify and Bad Idea Factory, helping architect systems that served hundreds of millions of users.

With deep expertise in Python, C++, data analysis, and physics-informed modeling, Ian brings a rare blend of scientific rigor and large-scale engineering to product development.

At Spotify, Ian was part of the core team behind the behavioral intelligence infrastructure powering more than 90% of Spotify's recommendations across 800M+ users and 1B+ items.

Malachyte raised a $10M seed round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gradient Ventures, and its platform delivers sub-200ms real-time personalization without cookies or logins, deployable in as little as seven days.