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New York, Ny, Us

South Miami, Florida, Us

South Miami, Florida, Us

- Fractional or Interim CTO functions to startups at early or growth stage- Deep experience in MVP, zero-to-one product development- Coaching startup executives- Driving engineering team processes and efficiency- Formulating an AI/ML strategy and leading AI teams- Architectural review/guidance for scalability.

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Continuing my role as Chief Technology Officer post-acquisition (of Wade & Wendy), I spearhead the development and expansion of the Conversational AI division in the US, orchestrating a dynamic team spanning both the U.S. and Israel. In response to evolving market demands, I have recently pivoted towards pioneering efforts in cutting-edge AI technologies, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), alongside complementary AI solutions in vision and voice.Key Achievements:• Lead technical integration efforts with Pandologic and Veritone.• Continued to enhance conversational AI products and integrating into larger platform.• Established and led a dedicated Labs team entrusted with maintaining a pulse on State-of-the-ArtLLMs and other AI models, resulting in the creation of groundbreaking Gen AI solutions. Thesesolutions serve as invaluable assets not only for internal integration within Veritone's business unitsbut also for esteemed clients, including prominent entities such as NBC and USTA.• Directed initiatives focused on voice solutions and computer vision applications, with a strategicemphasis on pivotal sectors such as Government (public sector) solutions and Media andEntertainment. Notable engagements include collaborations with California police departments,showcasing our commitment to impactful innovation in critical domains.

New York, Ny, Us

Wade & Wendy was an AI recruiting software company that is transforming talent acquisition by delivering talent and teams an effective, personalized recruiting experience at scale. The technology platform includes a knowledge graph, machine learning models, web portals and chatbots to engage talent.• Lead and build out technology and product from early angel investment stage to series A.• Built out technology and AI/data science platform and teams to support vision from pre revenue stageto post revenue with fortune 500 clients.• Lead architecture and design efforts as well an innovation strategy.• Used cutting edge NLP, data science and engineering techniques, including building a knowledgegraph and working with 100s of millions of people data profiles.• Worked closely with sales and product teams and CEO to build the business from the ground up.• Some of the technologies used were Java, Python, Go, Neo4j, Snowflake, Kafka and various pieces ofAWS infrastructure. Terraform and Kubernetes for CICD.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Hortonworks (acquired by Cloudera) was the leading provider of Hadoop as an open big data platform. Ijoined Hortonworks to learn more about big data as well as to contribute to open source.• Became an Apache committer and PMC (Architect) for the Apache Knox project.• Added features to the Knox framework to provide secure access to Hadoop clusters.• Enhanced Authentication, Authorization and auditing features.• Integrating various REST APIs to Knox, specifically, Hive, HDFS, YARN, HBase, Oozie, Storm, Spark,Falcon, Ranger and Ambari.• Creating awareness in the community and evangelized the product.

New York, New York, Us

Joined founding members of a financial technology startup whose charter is to provide structured riskinformation to financial institutions by leveraging a large number of orthogonal data sources.• Built a small team of developers and implemented an agile engineering process as well as a smalldevops teams to manage and scale the Amazon EC2 based infrastructure.• Worked on re-architecting the data platform that collected, cleaned and scored data attributes andenhancing REST services to provide real time predictions as well as process batch requests.• Worked on integrating data sources/vendors into the platform as well as integrating models built by thedata science team.

Hamilton, Nj, Us

Brought on board to revitalize technology innovation at Voxware, a voice solutions company that focuseson improving productivity and safety in warehouse operations by replacing archaic paper-based methodswith voice recognition software and business workflows.Responsibilities ranged from being a hands-on architect and developer as well as providing product vision, product roadmap and interacting with partners, customers as well as prospects in sales cycles.• Conceived and brought a packaged cloud offering to the market within the span of a year to target small to mid-sized businesses. The cloud offering leveraged Amazon EC2 services.• Moved the product and platform towards vertical spaces, other than the warehouse.• Worked with hardware vendors to design new mobile devices for voice solutions.• Built a development team from the ground up and implemented an agile process to improve productquality and predictability of releases and moved the team towards an always ready to release(continuous delivery) product by leveraging modern infrastructure.• Architected and helped develop (contributed extensively to the code base) a new multimodal platformto leverage the partner community for building voice solutions. Designed and implemented the W3Cspecification for MMI (multimodal interaction).• Other voice platform technologies included MQTT, VXML, SCXML, MRCP, SIP and RTP.

Hamilton, Nj, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Architected and lead development on the next generation architecture of the product set branded Optim.The company was Princeton Softech when I joined and then got acquired by IBM. The product setprovided solutions around data governance, focusing on data privacy and data growth issues.• Created a new platform, architected from the ground up using SOA principles and MDA (model driven)to provide the foundation for vertical solutions.• Some technologies used - Java, J2EE, Spring, OSGi (Equinox), Webservices and Flex. Worked withJBoss, WASCE and WAS servers as well as Informix, DB2 and Oracle databases.• Also responsible for training and leading a team through the entire product life cycle as well as settingup and managing infrastructure, like the SCM system.

Austin, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

B.E., Electronics Engineering

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