Ian Whitestone

CEO

Toronto, Ontario, Canada6 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founder of a leading Snowflake optimization platform.
  • Expert in data warehouse optimization and cost management.
  • Proven leadership in building high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on data optimization and cost management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Snowflake Cost ManagementLeadership

Other Skills

Data optimizationCustomer managementPythonData AnalysisSQLTeamworkTime ManagementMicrosoft ExcelPublic SpeakingChemical Engineering

About

I’m currently the co-founder and CEO of SELECT, the Snowflake cost management and optimization platform. Head to our website to learn more about what we do: select.dev We're currently hiring data, software and sales engineers: https://select.dev/about#hiring

Experience

6 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Select

Co-Founder & CEO

Jun 2022Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • SELECT is the leading Snowflake optimization and cost management platform, currently serving over 200 customers and managing over $250 million in Snowflake spend.
  • The company was founded in 2022 by co-founders Ian Whitestone and Niall Woodward. With extensive experience in optimizing data warehouses and improving query performance for multiple companies, we're taking all our learnings and building best-in-class tooling to help as many companies as possible maximize their Snowflake ROI.
Snowflake cost managementData optimizationLeadership

Shopify

3 roles

Data Science Lead

Promoted

Jan 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • https://ianwhitestone.work/farewell-shopify/

Senior Data Scientist

Promoted

Jan 2020Dec 2020 · 11 mos

Data Scientist

Jan 2019Dec 2019 · 11 mos

Capital one

3 roles

Principal Data Scientist

Promoted

Jul 2018Dec 2018 · 5 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

Senior Data Scientist

Promoted

Jul 2017Jun 2018 · 11 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

Data Scientist

Jul 2016Jun 2017 · 11 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

Cenovus energy

Operational Process Engineer

May 2014Aug 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

Education

Queen's University

Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) with Professional Internship — Chemical Engineering

Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School

High School Diploma

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