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California, United States

San Francisco, Us

Creating a scalable solution that revolutionizes the defense against malicious AI generated cyber attacks.

◆ Spearheaded the development of a Continuous Engagement Platform for banks and credit unions, focusing on technical leadership and AI strategy.◆ Implemented scalable processes and improvements at Zorro Wealth, leading to enhanced efficiency and innovation in the financial sector.

Tempe, Us

Influence corporate strategy by delivering 12+ concepts and Proofs of Concept (PoCs) resulting insecuring $5M+ in additional Research and Development (R&D) investments. Research included humancentered threat protection (scam/phishing, cognitive threats, misinformation), risk scoring forconsumer privacy (websites, mobile apps, digital footprint), misinformation research and factchecking support using identity and generative AI technologies such as creating Embeddings, LLM fine-tuning, or Privacy-preserving ML.◆ Serve as the CTO Innovation Program liaison for Product and Engineering teams, translating researchinto 4 product pilots and system architectures that increased business case viability by 30% andimproved product/market fit by 25%.◆ Spearhead the Decentralized Identity Research Program, innovating in security and privacy measuresthat reduced consumer scam and phishing incidents by 40% and enhanced user privacy by 35%.◆ Manage and lead global research and engineering teams, delivering cross-functional solutions andproducts that improved user experience for 500M+ users, increasing user engagement by 20% andreducing churn rate by 15%.◆ Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Legal teams to successfully define and launch8 new technologies and product pilots, achieving a 90% approval rate from cross-functionalstakeholders.◆ Conduct 20+ pitches, demos, and reports for CEO/CTO review, accelerating decision-making for keyinitiatives by 25%.

Prague, Cz

Led a global team in integrating machine learning to B2C security and privacy system architectures andsolutions, resulting in a 20% improvement in event detection rates. Managed senior engineers and two managers. ◆ Developed machine-learning-based and data-driven solutions that mitigated network attacks on IoTsystems, resulting in a 94% decrease in network exploitability score and a 12% improvement indetection accuracy.◆ Implemented privacy solutions for consumer identity protection, successfully masking online userpresence and reducing identity theft incidents by 35% and resulting in a successful pilot that led toan investment of a 40+ development team.◆ Spearheaded 5G and Edge Cloud strategy and architecture for network security in residentialnetworks, achieving little to no impact on user latency and reducing security incidents by 40%.◆ Managed a cross-functional team of 15+ individual contributors, including data scientists, engineers,and system architects, achieving a 94% retention rate over two years.◆ Mentored Team Leads and Senior Engineers resulting in 5 internal promotions and a 30% increase inteam productivity.◆ Established internal and external thought leadership by disseminating research at 5+ top-tierconferences, generating 8+ patents, 3 industry analyst interviews, and achieving a 20% increase inbrand recognition within the IoT Security community.◆ Collaborated with Product and Engineering teams to deliver cross-functional solutions, transferring 4pilots to product and a 30% increase in customer satisfaction scores.◆ Led 2 industrial research cooperations with UC Berkeley and TU Dresden resulting in 3 publishedpapers and posters.◆ Successfully navigated the team through two major corporate transformation phases, including amerger and a divestiture, with zero attrition and a 20% improvement in team morale.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

◆ Designed architecture and built a log analytics tool leveraging notebooks to enable AIOps, resulting ina 20% increase in operational efficiency and enabling custom analytics for detecting “unknownunknowns” making up 85% of all attacks.◆ Extended and maintained a big data log analytics solution for cloud instance rightsizing and BI,leading up to 20% cost reduction in cloud expenses and a 25% improvement in data-driven decision-making.

San Jose, Ca, Us

◆ Led a 10-engineer research effort to mitigate DDoS attacks from the Internet of Things (IoT) devicesusing machine learning, resulting in a 40% reduction in successful attacks and a 25% improvement insystem response time.◆ Presented corporate machine learning vision to C-level executives in Executive Briefing Centers(EBCs), influencing strategic decisions that led to a 15% increase in R&D investment in machinelearning technologies.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

◆ Conducted research on Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems, including developing telematics andanalytics solutions for Connected Cars, resulting in a 95% accuracy in detecting manipulatedvehicular control units and a 20% increase in real-time data accuracy for vehicle diagnostics.◆ Pitched automotive security solution at 6+ companies, published 14 peer-reviewed research papers, 20+ magazine and news articles and interviews in print and TV.

Wien, At

Engineered hardware and software solutions using FPGAs◆ PhD Thesis on security in safety-critical systems resulting in an authentication protocol with minimal overhead and impact on timeliness and jitter in the real-time network.◆ Taught Cyber-Physical Systems and OS classes to 200+ graduate and undergraduate students,achieving a 95% positive feedback rate and an award for “Innovation in Teaching.”

Postdoc, Computer Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering

Master Of Science/Diplom-Ingenieur, Computer Science, Computer Science