Hands-on software technology expert with over 25 years of experience. Product leader with extensive experience in developing new data management and GenAI/LLM/RAG/AI Agent products, raising capital, and nurturing PLG throughout all stages of the business.Responsible for overall business strategy and execution including technology thought leadership, product and engineering management. I uniquely combine strategic market and technology vision in the software industry with in-depth hands-on technical expertise.Frequent international speaker (45+ presentations world-wide) and Forbes Technology Council member, long time mentor and advisor, active open source contributor, Java/Scala founding community member. Recognized expert and authority on distributed high performance data processing. Industry innovator in NLP and practitioner in GenAI/AI Agent, reinforcement learning and deterministic AI/ML. Global thought leader and practitioner in In-Memory Computing. Expert in programming languages design and compiler development. Developed blockchain infrastructure for on-chain dApps.