Matthew Wallace

Co-Founder & CTO

KamiwazaAI

Dec 2023 - Current (2 years 6 months)

Kamiwaza has created a developer-centric but Enterprise focused GenAI engine; the stack, certified on hardware platforms and cloud instances, can manage and deploy models; it can catalog, ingest and retrieve data; generate embeddings and indexes; build ontologies; deploy and manage apps and tools, all while linking multiple locations securely with federated identity, strong access controls. Despite that, it can run completely offline. In a bunker if you wanted. On the farm. It is cross-platform with a consistent API, working on hardware as diverse as apple-silicon macs, to x86 and arm64 Linux with nVidia, Ampere, AMD, and Intel specific support for accelerated engines. Our locality-aware distributed data engine and inference mesh provide

Advisor

Faction Inc

Dec 2023 - Aug 2024 (9 months)

Denver Metropolitan Area

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Podcaster

AI Everyday Podcast

Mar 2023 - Current (3 years 3 months)

Hosting a fun, fast, short-form AI podcast, AI Everyday - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3y876l-nINjAq1kFO7DOZd1AiKDWhaWT - discussing the ins and outs of AI, with a focus on big innovations, analysis of technology and events, and tips and tricks for practitioners.

Chief Technology Officer & EVP

Faction Inc

May 2018 - Dec 2023 (5 years 8 months)

Created & launched world's first multi-cloud data service, a flagship new product, white-labelled by Dell Tech, launched in main conference keynote. Named Dell Tech Innovation Partner of the Year for 2021. 🏆 Went 0 to 40+ F500/G2000 customers. Added 3 patents to an amazing portfolio focused on multi-cloud networking. Recruited, inspired, mentored technology team, managing up to ~40 across software, engineering, architecture; drove company-high eNPS - helping a great team get better. Chief Evangelist, leading outbound marketing through writing (dozens of publications), webinars, conference speaker. Chief Architect and head of product for launch of major products. Personally tackled "impossible" POCs and showcases; e.g.: built the world'

Official Member of Forbes Technology Council

Forbes Technology Council

May 2018 - Nov 2023 (5 years 7 months)

Writing on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/people/matthewwallace1/?sh=79d34cbf2d57

VP Product Management and Product Development, Solutions Marketing

Faction Inc

Jul 2016 - May 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Build the product management and product development teams/practices from ground zero. Conceived & executed strategic pivot from hosted private cloud to green-field VMware Cloud & DR market, becoming #1 partner for VMware's flagship cloud product (VMware Cloud on AWS), leading to strategic B-round investment and substantial growth. Grew team, led architecture, worked on investments rounds (pitch decks, diligence, etc). Promoted to CTO.

Director Business and Cloud Ecosystem Development

Level Communications

Feb 2016 - Jun 2016 (5 months)

Technical lead at the #1 Interconnection partner for AWS, Azure, GCP. Drove revenue, engaged with key customers. Developed and evangelized API strategy and launched API strategy team to drive movement toward "dynamic network" as a product. Worked across teams to develop hybrid cloud strategy.

Director of Product Development

ViaWest

Jan 2013 - Feb 2016 (3 years 2 months)

Led product development for $200M datacenter and tech services company; led architecture PCI- and HIPAA-compliant cloud services, DRaaS services, VMware-based cloud services, storage services, and more. Led to massive growth in cloud services revenue. ViaWest acquired by Shaw Communication for a near-record EBITDA multiple for a service provider. Managed senior and principal engineers and architects; internal SME and technical resource of last resort for variety of technologies. Led API development for portal. Wrote the replacement for the cloud billing system. Frequent speaker, presenter, evangelist at panels, industry events, conferences; SME driving large wins with key customers.

Director of Cloud Architecture

ViaWest

Jul 2012 - Jan 2013 (7 months)

Managed the team of senior and principal engineers responsible for cloud and managed services architecture. Led hardware stack transformation, driving a 32% reduction in pricing without margin erosion. Provided roadmap and budget support to CTO. Led services architecture for products across the spectrum of compute, network, storage, services, security, and more. Provided architectural leadership for a wide variety of product offerings, and performed comprehensive analysis of various vendor products.

vCloud Solutions Architect

vmware

Jun 2010 - Jun 2012 (2 years 1 month)

Technical lead for launch of VMware Service Provider Program (now the VCPP). Build reference architectures, contributing author for VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT). API design, focused on vCloud extensions of add-on services. VSPP/VCPP was one of VMware's fastest growing BUs for a decade. Architect and team lead for utilities package for VMware vCIM. vCIM Utilities automated a full vCloud stack deployment. Recruited multiple senior staff members. One of the first two architects designing vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS), VMware's first public cloud effort (later known as vCloud Air).

Lead Web Application Architect and Software Engineering Manager

Daz D

Jun 2006 - Jun 2010 (4 years 1 month)

Head of technology and software at digital services company, the leader in consumer digital art assets. Used my e-Commerce engine. Managed team of 10 (2 offshore). Cut technology costs 65% the first year optimizing infrastructure deployments. Managed 40% YoY growth for 2 years. Rapidly developed new functionality (e.g., "Deal of the Day") in response to high impact of 2008 financial crisis on business.

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Principal/Consultant

Double Ewe Software Ltd

Jan 2002 - Aug 2011 (9 years 8 months)

Created an e-commerce engine as a solo project, producing an MVP with cart, catalog, checkout, and shopping experience in 6 weeks. Over the next year added dozens of features, optimized performance to handle millions of MAUs. Built dozens of custom modules for clients, including subscription sales and tracking, brokering/payout modules, custom local tax schemes, "member"/club functionality, deeper item customizations (user-defined product attribute selection). Massive BI reporting functionality. Built PCI-compliant card "vault" functionality enabling highly secure processing, compliant with PCI Tier 1. Refactored to modern responsive web design, moving from MVC model to API-driven PWA model. Pioneering cloud deployment on AWS in 2007 (EBS

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Principal Security Engineer

Exodus Communications

Oct 1996 - Sep 2001 (5 years)

I started one of the world's first Managed Security Services practices, inside the first Internet data center provider; at one point hosting 50% of the top 100 sites (including Yahoo, Hotmail, Microsoft, eBay, and many more). MSS biz went 0 to >$50M ARR with enormous margins in less than 4 years. As the first (and for a time, only) engineer building the practice, I developed the products/services & practice, hired all-star talent, and worked directly to implement critical security services for dozens of Fortune 500 and cutting edge tech startup firms - including banking/financial, healthcare, and more. As the team grew, I focused largely on automation, R&D, and some of the largest and most complex customers.

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