Experience

Senior Director of Infrastructure Foundation — Meta

Zurich & Bay Area · 2017–2026

Previously: Reality Labs, and Integrity divisions at Facebook & Instagram

  • Infrastructure Foundations: responsible for the analytical rigor and planning of Meta's infrastructure initiatives. Led analytics during a 5×+ scale-up in capacity throughput, deploying hundreds of MW of AI inference, training, compute, and storage on a monthly basis.
  • Reality Labs: owned analytics strategy for all underlying horizontal technologies for Virtual and Augmented Reality. Teams shipped multiple cutting-edge devices (Quest 2, 3, 3S, Pro, Ray-Ban Metas). Drove analytical excellence for FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) during the launch of Llama, Segment Anything, and Seamless.
  • Integrity: led programs to combat fake news, polarization, bullying, and other systemic risks. Deployed first ML classifiers driving fundamental ecosystem changes. Built a signal framework supporting trillions of user requests daily. Managed global organizations of 200+ scientists and engineers across Legal, Policy, Design, and product partners.

Professor of Practice, Economics Department — Central European University

Vienna & Budapest · 2018–present
  • Developed and teach core and elective courses in the CEU MSc in Business Analytics — ranked #1 in Central Europe and #50 worldwide in the QS Masters in Business Analytics rankings. Courses: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Designing Analytics Projects, and Intro to Data Science. Consistently strong reviews.
  • Mentored 50+ students in their Capstone projects with industry partners from global consulting firms, oil & gas, commodities, and NGOs. Developed the coursework and rubrics for the program's culminating project.

Chief Data Scientist and VP of Product — Domino Data Lab

San Francisco · 2014–2017
  • Owned engagements with leading research and advisory companies to establish new category understanding around analytics platforms and AI, placing Domino favorably in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and similar evaluations. Helped raise a $10M+ Series A round.
  • Worked with customers in life sciences, finance, insurance, risk management, and technology to develop their data science processes. Drove multiple multi-million-dollar ARR platform deployments.
  • Represented Domino at global conferences as an industry data science expert — O'Reilly Strata, KDD, TDWI Global.

Principal Data Scientist & Development Team Lead — Ingram Content

La Vergne, TN · 2005–2014
  • Built ML solutions deployed on the world's largest eTextbook platform — insights drove decisions on international adoption, content security, and IP protection.
  • Scaled image hosting to billions of requests per week. Technical lead for Ingram's robotics platform — automated future-factories for hands-off Print on Demand, AI vision systems, and intelligent logistics. Tripled total factory throughput per unit of work.
  • Technical lead on a high-speed book scanning platform. Built content ingestion pipelines that met 100% of SLAs and enabled entirely new business lines in long-term digital archiving.

Expert Systems — National Association of State Boards of Accountancy

Nashville, TN · 2003–2005
  • Ran the software organization building expert systems for regulatory compliance across all 50 state boards of accountancy. Coordinated thousands of hours of human labeling to translate the legal text governing CPE into machine-checkable rules.
  • Owned technical deployment engagements with high-stakes multinational clients (Deloitte and others), where the software became the backbone of compliance awareness.

Education

M.A. Negotiation, Conflict Resolution & Peacebuilding

California State University, Dominguez Hills · 2015–2017

B.S. Computer Science (and additional coursework)

Middle Tennessee State University · 1996–2005

Vice President of the Student CACM; lab assistant for intro programming courses.

Skills

AI Strategy & Responsible Innovation
Applied ML · NLP · Generative AI · Algorithmic risk and fairness · Model deployment at scale
Organizational Leadership
Executive decision-making · Technical vision · Global team development · Change management
Policy & Governance
AI regulation · Data ethics · Public–private partnerships · Human-centered design
Digital Transformation
Scalable infrastructure · Data platform architecture · Emerging technologies (AR/VR, LLMs)
Cross-Sector Collaboration
Academic partnerships · NGO engagement · Industry–policy alignment
Communication & Influence
Strategic storytelling · Stakeholder alignment · Public speaking & executive engagement

Selected open-source contributions

  • HuggingFace transformers — upstream contributor: added OLMo / OLMo2 / OLMo3 support to AutoModelForSequenceClassification (merged within 24h).
  • CEU course materials — Managing Data Science Teams, Applied Deep Learning, Designing Analytics Projects, and Intro to Data Science, all open-sourced.
  • resumasher — agentic resume tailoring + cover letters + interview prep built for my students.

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