Location: Austin, TX, USA
Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in Austin.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies:
- Data Storage: AWS S3, BigQuery, GCS, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake
- DataOps: dbt (Cloud/Core), Fivetran, Hightouch, Looker Studio, Metabase, Tableau, Hex
- AI: Anthropic, Cursor, Midjourney, Ollama, OpenAI
- Programming: Bash, GitHub, HTML, CSS, Python, SQL
- Product: Arcade, Betterstack, Hotjar, Intercom, Retool, Segment
- Web & Design: Descript, Docusaurus, Figma, Ghost, GitBook, Sanity.io, Webflow
- GTM: Ahrefs, Apollo, Clay, Google Ads, Salesforce
- Productivty: Airtable, Linear, Notion, Slack, Zapier
Résumé/CV: https://bburch.my/resume
Email: agile.desk3846@fastmail.com (masked address so I can filter out spam)
I'm a seasoned technical product leader with 10+ years experience building data-intensive products and B2B SaaS platforms that drive adoption and scale.
I was previously the first product analytics hire at a Vision AI startup, Roboflow. Before that, I co-founded a B2B data operations tool, Shipyard. Earlier in my career, I was the Head of Data Products at PMG Advertising Agency where I built the team from the ground up. With a wide array of experience across Product, Data, and AI, I've led teams of up to 12 and have also been in the weeds as a department of one.
It's most important for me to work for a mission-driven company that wants to scale with bold and innovative approaches. I want to sink my teeth into tough problems, learn new things, and work with interesting and curious people.
I'm primarily looking for technical product roles. I enjoy ideating solutions, building MVPs, experimentation, and orchestrating all of the work to achieve a strategic vision. I prefer a roughly 70/30 split between leader/IC. I prefer smaller organizations with the ability to build something from the ground up. Despite my background, I'd like to avoid working in the advertising space.
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid in Austin.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies:
- Data Storage: AWS S3, BigQuery, GCS, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake
- DataOps: dbt (Cloud/Core), Fivetran, Hightouch, Looker Studio, Metabase, Tableau, Hex
- AI: Anthropic, Cursor, Midjourney, Ollama, OpenAI
- Programming: Bash, GitHub, HTML, CSS, Python, SQL
- Product: Arcade, Betterstack, Hotjar, Intercom, Retool, Segment
- Web & Design: Descript, Docusaurus, Figma, Ghost, GitBook, Sanity.io, Webflow
Résumé/CV: https://bburch.my/resume
Email: agile.desk3846@fastmail.com (masked address so I can filter out spam)
I'm a seasoned data + AI leader with 10+ years experience building high-performance teams focused on automation, analytics, and data-driven results. I'm the type of person who looks at complex data challenges and sees opportunities for radical transformation. Whether it's automating workflows, experimenting with AI, or creating novel ML models that drive efficiency, I'm all about pushing boundaries and turning data into a growth accelerator.
I was previously the first analytics hire at a Computer Vision startup, Roboflow. Before that, I was co-founder of a B2B data operations tool, Shipyard. Earlier in my career, I was the Head of Data at PMG Digital Agency where I built the team from the ground up. It's most important for me to work for a mission-driven company that wants to scale with bold and innovative approaches. I want to sink my teeth into tough problems and learn new things.
I'm primarily looking for data leadership or technical product roles. I enjoy ideating solutions, building MVPs, experimentation, and orchestrating all of the work to achieve a strategic vision. I prefer a 70/30 split between leader/IC. I prefer smaller organizations with the ability to build something from the ground up. Despite my background, I'd like to avoid working in the advertising space.
I really enjoyed sanity.io a year ago. It had the best data structure flexibility by a mile, with the ability to have multiple user draft states and merge conflict resolution.
Other Headless CMS felt restrictive, with shared drafts or the requirement for all published items to have changes go live instantly.
Once you're set up with your schema, the UI is easy enough for non-developers (and you can customize it for them if needed).
Really fun to see! I'd love to have something similar for esports, like League of Legends or Rocket League. So much of the commentary feels like filler with stats and statements about a player.
Have done an interactive commentator for rocket league that is also simultaneously your duo partner. Works quite well. This was in October 2024 so the tech is there and even better now.
If the employer adds more friction with custom, upfront questions, they drastically reduce the quantity of applications while increasing the quality of those left.
If the employer doesn't post to job boards, they reduce the quantity of applications, but they increase those that found them "direct" and likely care more about the company.
It's not perfect, but the biggest issue right now is that both sides are typically trying to put as little effort in as possible.
Debatable. Willingness to put effort into a job application is not necessarily a good proxy for candidate quality. Indeed I would expect that the most desirable candidates can put the least effort in whereas those who are most willing to put up with crap are those with the fewest alternatives. I suppose for certain management structures someone having no better options could be seen as a plus - they'll stick around longer, put up with abuse, probably work for lower pay and less frequent raises - but I feel like they would still do better with appropriately skilled and compensated employees.
A bypass is not possible. I believe the raybans meta have an "always on" AI mode/session now.
To be honest, the biggest issue with the glasses is battery life and I don't see that changing any time soon. It doesn't matter what LLM processes your data if it can only do it for one hour per charge.
You can use it like this, it's just that it's integrated with Meta's companion app which also has AI capabilities.
Personally, I found the AI capabilities kind of lackluster now but I'm sure more features will be added in the future.
The most useful features I found were taking quick photos and video calls with friends and family while away on work trips. Music playback was also decent but it eats up the limited battery.
The AI stuff is already offloaded to Meta servers via your phone.
I don't think there are any models AI that would be able to run natively on phones with acceptable performance.
Even if it did, my experience with video calls and the glasses are that the battery only lasts about 45minutes so I'm guessing slightly better performance for always on AI depending on what features you use.
This is... terrible news. This is primarily how I get books from the library. I found that if you keep the Kindle on Airplane mode and download + transfer them, they never expire.
Nothing malicious. I just can't read books arbitrarily in a 21 day period.
This will not affect you at all. They're not stopping allowing you to transfer books to your kindle over USB. They're stopping letting you download book files from Amazon.
From what the article says, that's doesn't appear to be true.
In order to download and transfer Kindle books from the Library, I have to first add them to "My Content" on Amazon, then from the Amazon interface click "Download & Transfer via USB". That's the only way to access the AZW3 files that get moved over to the Kindle.
I was! Responded in a comment below. The public library serves the digital books directly through Amazon.
Either I'm missing something more obvious or the system I've seen libraries use for digital books over the past 10 years is more uncommon than I realized.
From what the article says, that's doesn't appear to be true.
In order to download and transfer Kindle books from the Library, I have to first add them to "My Content" on Amazon, then from the Amazon interface click "Download & Transfer via USB". That's the only way to access the AZW3 files that get moved over to the Kindle.
Are you talking about the amazon library or an actual library that lends you ebooks? I'm assuming the latter, in which case you just plug in and transfer.
Actual library that lends me ebooks (Austin). The library uses Overdrive (Libby) and anything provided in the Kindle format can't be downloaded directly from the Library's interface. You have to click a "Read now with Kindle" button which redirects you to Amazon, where you have to click "Get Library Book" directly from Amazon.com.
Epub can be downloaded directly from the library, but these have to be converted into a Kindle compatible format. I'm also unsure if every digital book copy has Epub as a format, since there are some digital copies that don't have Kindle format.
This has been true of all public digital libraries I've used in the past 10 years (Houston, Arlington, Fort Worth)
I was previously the first product analytics hire at a Vision AI startup, Roboflow. Before that, I co-founded a B2B data operations tool, Shipyard. Earlier in my career, I was the Head of Data Products at PMG Advertising Agency where I built the team from the ground up. With a wide array of experience across Product, Data, and AI, I've led teams of up to 12 and have also been in the weeds as a department of one.
It's most important for me to work for a mission-driven company that wants to scale with bold and innovative approaches. I want to sink my teeth into tough problems, learn new things, and work with interesting and curious people.
I'm primarily looking for technical product roles. I enjoy ideating solutions, building MVPs, experimentation, and orchestrating all of the work to achieve a strategic vision. I prefer a roughly 70/30 split between leader/IC. I prefer smaller organizations with the ability to build something from the ground up. Despite my background, I'd like to avoid working in the advertising space.
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