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Slide Up is Snapchat's biggest lens creator. With millions of downloads, the Slide Up app has made viral lens games that were played 30bi+ times. As a verified lens creator on snap (@viralstuff) and AI expert, pioneered SnapML, creating the platform's first AI based filters for face effetcs, NLP, face recognition, drawing recognition and many more: celebrity AI conversational bots, automatic lyrics generation, contextualized NLP games based on the user name. Most played AI based games in the world.

Cupertino, California, Us

Develop distributed systems and apply cutting edge algorithms and Client models to improverelevance across a range of advertising applications. The position involved large scale datainfrastructure building as well the capability to do big data analysis. Detecting meaningful datapatterns; assuring the integrity and breadth of the data; measuring user, campaign and appperformance; and finally analyzing the results of extremely large-scale experiments. In addition,also applied advanced Client techniques for federated learning whereprivacy mechanisms are safeguarded at the very onset and delightful relevance experiences arebuilt by applying encryption techniques, on-device segmentation, advanced language models,ranking algorithms by utilizing the best of aggregated server and on-device data.

New York, New York, Us

Sagemount invests $40 - $400 million in growth companies with recurring revenue in SaaS software, B2B and B2C, FinTech, Digital Infrastructure, Healthcare IT, eCommerce, and enterprise software.As part of the "Growth Factors Team" (Sagemount's brand for portfolio operations / enterprise value creation), I advice Sagemount portfolio companies on how to take advantage of the latest technology enhancements in NLP, RPA, AI bots with focus on cyber security and infra structure roadmaps.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Worked together with the Snap engineering team to create one of the first machine learning lenses powered by snapML

Created the world's first NLP protocol to embed videos behind the text of web pages. Worked on several machine learning projects with large scale datasets and state of the art natural language processing algorithms. Made state of the art text to speech process to transcribe millions of videos. Developed a real-time hashing and byte matching paired with delayed-reconciliatory reporting to the cross-sharded main chain.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Founded in 1996, Idealab is the longest running technology incubator: created over 150 companies with more than 45 IPOs and acquisitions.Ideated and prototyped more than 100 apps ranging from simple games to complex machine learning experiences. Reached top 1 chart in the App Store and had several apps constantly on top 100.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Founding engineer, leading the technology developments of the startup creation/search/funding platform. IdeaMarket has funded ideas from well known silicon valley investors like Max Levchin, Shervin Pishevar, Scott Banister and others. We select the best entrepreneurial teams that want to run with those ideas!

Focus on collecting and analyzing typed words from users to improve natural language processing algorithms as well as developing custom type/gesture handling algorithms on touch screen devices. Helped create the system wide custom keyboard for iOS, launched on the day of Apple's iOS 8 public release. Reached top 2 on the App Store downloads chart.

Sold to https://www.vivomiles.com/Next generation gamification platform.Using augmented reality, wearable technology and mobile devices to create engaging experiences for big brands.Extremely successful customer use case with Grindr.

GeoPapyrus is a mobile software platform connecting the physical world with your Social Content. Using GeoPapyrus, you can view, publish, and interact with Social Content such as photos, videos, audio or web sites by browsing physical elements (frames, windows, buildings, books, …) from the real environment around you.GeoPapyrus easily augments the physical world with your Social Content.

ClickPic is a social tagging mobile application. Discover what people are saying about the things that surround you, simply by taking a picture or listening to something! We build image, audio and video recognition technologies to power users and companies with innovative interactions.Licensed the technology to www.ripleys.com

Pé2 is Latin America's first company to develop proprietary mobile visual recognition technology. Head quartered in Brazil, the startup company already accumulates international acknowledgment in the academic field.