Bio

A CTO, VP of Engineering & Data Science, Mentor, Advisor, and Speaker for Startups & Enterprise companies. Experience leading, recruiting and mentoring multiple engineering, data science, QA, & DevSecOps teams at all stages of company growth. A hands-on technical leader focused on performance & scalability, with a proven track record of product launches, company launches, architecture transformations, fund raises, exits, & post-acquisition transitions. A communicator & thoughtful software architect who uses disciplined & scalable practices for obtaining & retaining security compliance such as SOC certifications, GDPR & HIPAA requirements for regulated industries such as, Healthcare, Finance, Defense. Invests in people, as a mentor, advisor, & speaker, frequently presenting at industry conferences, with strategic customers, partners, & investors. Architecture & Development experience: - Chief Architect & Lead engineer - 15 years experience in a diverse range of key areas: * Machine Learning (including Deep NLP, TDA, AutoML, Model Ops, Model explainability, AI Bias mitigation) * Graph analytics * Big Data (Hadoop, Spark) * Dev Ops (Containerization, cloud deployment) * SW development, with an emphasis on performance analysis, optimization and scalability * Processor & accelerator design, development and research * Cryptography and security * VDI, remoting and video codec optimization - Over 65 US patents granted. - Over 30 publications in Academic (ACM, IEEE) and industry conferences and journals