Christopher Burns / @burnedchris
Building the AI-native compliance team.
I'm Christopher Burns, online as @burnedchris: a second-time founder building Inth, compliance infrastructure for teams that ship fast. I built c15t, an open-source compliance SDK with 2.7M downloads, and I spend most of my time turning privacy work into code developers can trust.
- open-source downloads
- 2.7M
- engineering lead
- 10 yrs
- company
- Inth
Inth exists because the old compliance model was built around dashboards, PDFs, and after-the-fact reviews, while modern software teams ship continuously.
Our wedge is c15t. It started with consent infrastructure because every serious company needs it, but the larger mission is code-native compliance: consent management, compliance monitoring, data subject requests, policy management, and vendor oversight connected to production.
Before Inth, I spent seven years building Everfund, a platform that helped charities raise millions. That work taught me how often compliance breaks in production code long before it shows up in a dashboard.
I've spent a decade as an engineering lead building developer tools and trust infrastructure. I'm deeply rooted in open source and developer communities, with talks at AI World's Fair, Next.js Conf, Jamstack Conf, and multiple meetups.
The thread through all of it is the same: I like making complex systems feel simple, trustworthy, and useful to the people doing the actual work. Right now, that means building Inth into the Snyk for compliance.
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Second-time founder building Inth, the AI-native compliance team for companies that ship fast. He built c15t, an open-source compliance SDK with 2.7M downloads.