Ian McAllister, Founder & CEO
Ian is a veteran technology product leader. He’s held senior roles at Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber where he built and ran large-scale customer and business-facing products and programs. Ian was born in Seattle and has lived most of his live in Washington state, taking a few detours to live in Australia, England, and Japan. He currently lives in Mercer Island, Washington where he and his wife Sara own allister, an elevated neighborhood restaurant serving New American cuisine and classic craft cocktails. Sara and allister are the inspiration behind Airloom.
Emily Danielson, CTO & Founding Engineer
Emily wrote the first lines of Airloom’s code during its early prototyping phase with Griptape. She brings over a decade of experience in computer vision, simulation, and real-world system integration, having built high-fidelity simulation platforms for autonomous systems and robotics. A former Amazon engineering leader, she shares Ian’s “working backwards” approach and commitment to building an honest, high-integrity culture with a laser-focused product vision.
William Price, Software Engineer
William joined Airloom after contributing to its early development and quickly accelerated the creation of user-facing features. He specializes in leveraging video and multi-modal foundation models to deliver high-quality results without extensive fine-tuning or custom model building. His work ensures Airloom Video Search is powerful, cost-efficient, and easy for any business to adopt.