I've been an executive, entrepreneur, and data science leader for twenty years. My passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and the human experience. My current focus areas are in NLP and augmented reality using deep learning, knowledge graphs, and probabilistic programming. In addition, I coach leaders and teams in data science and engineering.While I often lead from the keyboard, I've spent much of the last ten years in executive leadership roles at MuleSoft, Meta, BigCommerce, and Atlassian, building and running data science, research, developer marketing, product management, and engineering teams. I've trained hundreds of ML models, shipped a consumer augmented reality headset, delivered on-premise enterprise software, and built multiple scalable cloud platforms.
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Founder, CtoLayerjot Sep 2018 - PresentMenlo Park, California, UsLayerJot helps people in healthcare perform manual tasks, such as finding, counting, sorting, and conducting visual inspections in a variety of use-cases.The LayerJot applications are based on a framework for manual tasks assistance, which harnesses computer vision and augmented reality to understand context and provide feedback while processing massive amounts of visual information. We call this contextual spatial understanding.With LayerJot, people gain superpowers to get their work done faster and fewer mistakes. -
Founder, Data ScientistPermaling Nov 2009 - PresentPalo Alto, California, UsPermaling is a data science consulting company providing strategy, implementation, and coaching for ML and AI, focusing on natural language processing and computer vision based on deep learning, knowledge graphs, and Bayesian methods. We specialize on enabling and mentoring the internal teams, including designers, product managers, engineers, data scientists, and DevOps. -
Vice President, EngineeringMulesoft Oct 2016 - May 2018San Francisco, California, UsMuleSoft's mission is to help organizations change and innovate faster by making it easy to connect the world's applications, data and devices. Over $400B is spent each year integrating systems – and the problem is growing dramatically with the explosion of SaaS applications and devices.As VP of Engineering, Soren was responsible for leading software engineering in MuleSoft's San Francisco and Mountain View offices, where he was responsible for MuleSoft's data science, analytics and AI initiatives, as well as the Anypoint Platform Runtime Manager and iPaaS CloudHub. Leading from the keyboard, Soren developed a ground-breaking patent to automated data mapping using machine learning. -
Chief Product OfficerMeta Co. Apr 2014 - Sep 2016San Mateo, Ca, UsMeta is designing a future where augmented reality becomes a healthy, vital extension of who we are and creates deeper understanding, freer expression, and optimal productivity.As the CPO, Soren was responsible for product management, program management, neuroscience, data science and customer success, teams he built from scratch. Soren authored three patents related to collaborative workspaces for augmented reality.Prior to becoming CPO in November 2014, Soren was the VP of Engineering, responsible for the Meta 1 Development Kit and SDK, based on the Unity game engine and backed by cutting edge computer vision and machine learning algorithms for hands tracking and SLAM.From a Y-Combinator startup of 20, Soren has helped Meta scale to a team of over 100, assisting in raising $73M and taking interim responsibilities in marketing, partnerships and operations in addition to product and engineering.A frequent keynote speaker, Soren is an evangelist for augmented reality, promoting Meta's mission to change the interface paradigm of computing. -
Vice President Of EngineeringBigcommerce Dec 2011 - Jan 2014Austin, Texas, UsBigcommerce is the fastest growing ecommerce marketing platform in the world. Bigcommerce helps small businesses power anything and everything related to an online storefront from search to inventory to online payments to marketing and SEO.Soren was responsible for engineering, data science and SaaS operations at Bigcommerce. Starting with 12 engineers in Sydney, he grew the team to 80+, spanning Sydney and Austin, Texas. He transitioned from teams of generalists to specialists, adding product management, program management, test engineering, design/UX, DevOps and data science. He led the transition from a single tenant LAMP application to a PCI-compliant, multi tenant, service-oriented architecture while adding 3k customers per month, improving SLAs and reducing cost per customer.As a hands-on member of the data science team, Soren authored data products in R and Python for capacity estimation, cost optimization, fraud detection, forecasting and churn prediction. -
Vice President Of EngineeringAtlassian Sep 2008 - Nov 2009Sydney, Nsw, AuMillions of users globally rely on Atlassian products every day for improving software development, project management, collaboration, and code quality.As VP Engineering, Soren was responsible for all product development and user experience at Atlassian. Starting with a team of 20 developers, Soren grew the team to 100+, improved software engineering practices, integrated engineers from acquired entities and established the engineering presence in Gdansk and San Francisco. Under his leadership, Atlassian's portfolio of products grew from two to nine products, including the introduction of the Atlassian onDemand SaaS offering.A frequent keynote speaker, Soren promoted Altassian's thought leadership in Agile software development, speaking at leading conferences about lessons learned in the trenches at Atlassian using its own products. -
Director Of EngineeringAtlassian Mar 2007 - Sep 2008Sydney, Nsw, AuResponsible for software engineering at Atlassian (see VP Engineering, Atlassian). -
Director, Software EngineeringVignette Corporation Jan 2005 - Feb 2007UsResponsible for Vignette Collaboration, which is a collaboration and knowledge management software application. It combines usability, enterprise scale and extensibility: it has been customized and deployed for web-based communities, sales extranets, deal-flow collaboration, innovation management, project management portals, digital asset management, knowledge portals, collaborative threat assessment and response, e-learning, software engineering workspaces, etc.Successfully transitioned all software development from San Francisco to Sydney while increasing sales and customer satisfaction substantially. Introduced limited outsourcing to India. Changed the strategic direction of the product to play to Vignette’s strengths in web content management after Vignette acquired Intraspect. -
Senior Manager, Software EngineeringVignette Corporation May 2004 - Dec 2004UsResponsible for the software engineering of one Vignette Collaboration’s four main products, Vignette Collaboration. (See Director, Engineering, Vignette.) -
Principal EngineerVignette Corporation Dec 2003 - Apr 2004UsLed the clustering project for Vignette Collaboration 7.0, which scaled the horizontally across multiple nodes on different servers using a shared, clustered RDBMS.Improved scalability of search and indexing to 10 million documents and over one terabyte of content.Authored data analytics tools and performed data analysis in R. -
Manager Of Knowledge MiningIntraspect Software Apr 2000 - Nov 2003Responsible for leading software engineering teams. Developed core areas of the product, such as search, social network analysis and usage analytics. Authored much of the search subsystem. Authored analytics tools and performed data analysis with R and Oracle at gigabyte scale.Intraspect was acquired by Vignette in 2003. -
Software ArchitectIcem Systems, Gmbh Sep 1995 - Nov 1998Responsible for the design and implementation of the next generation CAD software architecture. Co-author of the Core Technology Base (CTB), which is a software framework for computer graphics and geometric modeling applications written in C++. The CTB is a building block for ICEM Surf, a leading surface modeling application acquired by Dassault Systèmes, and ICEM CFD, a leading mesh generation application acquired by Ansys.
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Software EngineerIcem Systems, Inc. Jun 1993 - Aug 1995Responsible for software development on the Solid Modeling team for ICEM DDN, a 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) system used in automotive, aerospace, defense and consumer markets.
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Programmer InternControl Data Corporation 1991 - 1993Wrote a diagnostic application to verify the integrity of trimmed surfaces in 3D surface models. The ICEM products at CDC became ICEM Systems.
Soren Harner Education Details
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Stanford UniversityArtificial Intelligence (Cs) -
St. Olaf CollegeMathematics -
West Orange Stark High -
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Coursera
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