Ian Serlin

CTO & Co-Founder

Playlab

Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 6 months)

Playlab enables educators and impact organizations to build their own AI-powered edtech apps, and share, remix and learn in an open global community of educators leading the way on AI.

Chief Engineering & Product Officer

Intellipse

May 2018 - Jul 2022 (4 years 3 months)

Acquired by Mutiny: https://www.mutinyhq.com/blog/intellipse-ai-acquisition Intellipse is a human-centric SMS marketing platform that empowers brands to build customer loyalty via authentic engagement, actionable insights, and customized conversational experiences. Intellipse is one of the first SMS marketing platforms that empowers marketers to use AI technology in order to have 2-way conversations with their customers at scale. - Joined Intellipse in 2018 (with our founding team: Mehdi Samadi, Babak Behzad, George Voulgaris, and Lukasz Jagodzinski), backed by Google's AI fund and Decibel Ventures. - Led engineering and product strategy, involved in all aspects from customer success to cashflow projections.

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Chief Executive Officer

FlavorPlease

May 2013 - Jun 2015 (2 years 2 months)

Founded and grew an on-demand service business for booking high quality food trucks grossing $300k in its first year of operations. At its peak, FlavorPlease partnered with hundreds of food trucks in 9 major markets across the US and serviced everything from weddings to conferences to corporate schedules for Pinterest, Microsoft, Zuora.

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Chief Executive Officer

Useful IO

Jun 2011 - May 2018 (7 years)

Founded, grew and ran global software development agency that helped five startups go from zero tech to millions in revenue over 7 years. Industries spanned healthcare and legal to agriculture and finance. Always on the forefront of leveraging new technologies where applicable to build better experiences and achieve goals quicker.

Sr. Application Architect

Personal Capital

Sep 2010 - Dec 2012 (2 years 4 months)

Product named one of Time Magazine's Top 50 Websites of 2012 during my tenure: http://techland.time.com/2012/09/18/50-best-websites-2012/#personal-capital Brought in to architect the first version of Personal Capital's consumer-facing web application. Guided and helped build the product from concept to launch at a time when highly interactive web applications were few and far between. Parts of that foundational architecture are still in use today.

Software Engineer

Blurb

Feb 2010 - Dec 2010 (11 months)

Trusted to make key trade‐off decisions reconciling design, technology and time and am currently driving the effort to streamline the entrance experience for Blurb’s Flex bookmaking app. Architected and developed key portions of the application including auto-save, auto‐flow, the text manipulation framework and contextual menu system. Standardized the API service infrastructure on REST and wrote the service abstraction layer between Flex and Rails based on HTTPMultiService and a custom metadata processor. Custom skinned a significant portion of the application using Flex 4 skinning techniques including FXG. Implemented custom Flex 4 list layout that dynamically finds the optimum size to display items based on screen resolution and aspec

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Advisor

Vokle Inc

Jan 2010 - Aug 2011 (1 year 8 months)

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Chief Technology Officer

Vokle Inc

Mar 2008 - Feb 2010 (2 years)

Responsible for technical direction of Vokle Inc. including platform vision and user experience in coordination with business and marketing Launched 2 complete products in 18 months with lean resources Integrated global network of 8 Flash Video Streaming clusters using geo-location data to identify optimal nodes for publishers and consumers to connect through supporting 1000s of concurrent users Developed AS3 layout engine capable of rapidly finding the optimal size and position of 300+ simultaneous videos based on user's available screen space while supporting live cutting between videos Developed Flex-based theme framework allowing non-technical users to brand and market their online events Developed REST toolset for Flex which a

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Development Consultant

Tanner Research

Jan 2008 - Jun 2008 (6 months)

Saved half-implemented project and successfully completed prototype vehicle defense system for the US Navy. Integrated C++ state machine into real-‐time embedded Linux system for the management of a variable array of flash detectors including data coming from GPS locators and gyroscopes. Developed real-time API for manipulating the position and orientation of a high speed camera to do object detection and trajectory analysis.

Program Manager

Microsoft

May 2007 - Aug 2007 (4 months)

Developed prototype WiFi phone and Windows Sidebar Gadget implementing Windows Rally tech which allows dynamic communication and control between a variety of Windows based devices. Scripted and produced concept video outlining 5 year vision for the Windows Hardware Ecosystem by interviewing, consolidating and synthesizing the ideas of all the division Directors and VPs.

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Technology Consultant

Caduceus International

Feb 2004 - May 2006 (2 years 4 months)

Enabled client to effectively use technology in variety of facets of their mobile hospital business. Developed and implemented data security plan including both physical and virtual redundancy.

Research Assistant

DePauw University

Jun 2001 - Aug 2003 (2 years 3 months)

Prototyped voice recognition, A/V conferencing, VNC style technology and Flash print filters for collaborative educational software www.dyknow.com

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