.engineer and former executive startup leader with a focus on data science and applied machine learning/ artificial intelligence (ai) technologies, data ethics, software design, product management, user experience/user interface engineering and management, and non-for profits in technology .former c-level executive at an early stage ml/ai startup specializing in machine learning innovation, product, and applied data and machine learning ethics .contributor to the open source kubeflow community .active blogger, panelist, conference speaker and workshop lead in a variety of topics under machine learning to national security & commercial audiences exceeding 500 attendees .12 years of experience as a member of the us army with over 7 years of experience in the special operations community in the following areas: all source analysis, technical targeting, cyber missions and operations, enterprise data strategy, open source intelligence (osint) and publicly available information (pai) datasets, mobile/edge dataflow and tactical signals collect, software development, technical program management for long term software & hardware tool sustainment, digital signature management, and technical and translation support to mission support operations .fluency in arabic (5 dialects), farsi, french and english .experience with full stack application and website development in python and java .former army captain (0-3) signals officer in the north carolina national guard .published author in fiction and non-fiction