Alex Bannon
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Head of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
United States
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Head of Engineering, Artificial IntelligencePersonioApr 2024 - Current (2 years 5 months)- Lead AI, Machine Learning, and Analytics products at Personio, managing multiple teams and reporting directly to the CTO. - Oversee customer-facing AI/ML features and the underlying data platform, from technical strategy through large-scale product launches. - Serve as the directly responsible individual for system correctness, availability, and security across our suite of products, our in-house LLMs, and third-party integrations. - Drive team performance by optimizing for deployment speed, latency, time-to-learn, and stakeholder alignment.- Board MemberKnologyDec 2023 - Dec 2025 (2 years 1 month)Served as a board member working on the technology and development committees helping to support Knology's non-profit mission of practical social science for a better world.
- Senior Machine Learning Engineering ManagerSpotifySep 2021 - Apr 2024 (2 years 8 months)Technical lead focused on the classification, recommendation, consumption, distribution, and removal of content for millions. Managed multiple squads in the machine learning, back-end, and data engineering spaces. Built in-house supervised, unsupervised, and NLP models as well as back-end integrations with openAI, HiveAI, and AssemblyAI with a focus on UGC podcasts.
- Director of EngineeringZip CoJan 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year 9 months)- Managed the Payments Engineering Department which was responsible for machine learning models to set balances and process all charges, refunds, and disbursements to merchants with roughly $3bn in yearly transaction volume. - Built and maintained ML models to detect and prevent fraudulent users, transactions, and refunds. - Instituted new agile processes company-wide including sprint frameworks, centralized project tracking, and overhauled career ladders; used the new tools to better measure and maintain velocity by identifying and getting ahead of blockers. - Tech lead on numerous projects including launching Quadpay in 2 new international markets, migrating from a monolithic architecture to microservices, compliance-driven changes to our
- Senior ConsultantKaplanJan 2020 - Aug 2020 (8 months)
- Head of EngineeringKaplanMay 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 9 months)• Head of the engineering department, reporting directly to the President of Metis, the Data Science Division within Kaplan. Responsible for communicating velocity, vision, successes, and challenges to the C-Suite and coordinating top-down goals and KPIs. • Lead the engineering team through sprint planning, refinement, estimation, commitment, retrospectives, code reviews, design documents, and post-mortems. Responsible for the team's overall velocity and output. • Manage direct reports through one-on-ones, mentorship, training, on-boarding, and day-to-day guidance. • Hire and onboard new engineers. • Conduct product planning and prioritization meetings, scope projects before prioritization, design solutions to problems, head kickoff meeting
- Software EngineerBettermentJun 2017 - May 2018 (1 year)Successfully launched the B2B 401(k) platform, with a specific focus on retirement glidepath functionality that auto-corrected retirement account investments. Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres stack.
- BCTO and Co-FounderBlackbookSep 2016 - Dec 2018 (2 years 4 months)- Co-Founded, built, and expanded a FinTech mobile ordering and payment app that boosted revenue by as much as $75K per year at various clubs and restaurants in the Washington, DC area. - Managed the engineering and product teams, working alongside the CEO as we built up the company. - Led on investment and client meetings to secure new funding and contracts. - Built a Point of Sale integration into restaurant systems in DC utilizing Ionic/Cordova, Angular 2, Node, Koa, JavaScript, MongoDB, and Mongoose.
- Senior Software EngineerDigital TurbineOct 2015 - Jun 2017 (1 year 9 months)• Node, express, mocha, gulp, handlebars, dynamoDB, and JavaScript • Implemented new tools for analytics tracking including tagmanager and newrelic. • Migrated our ad platform from mOcean to adsense, DFP, and header-bidding. • Aided in the creation of a single ad library utilized across our applications. • Created a location component that utilizes all available location sources across multiple devices, operating systems, browsers, and application versions. Sources include native location access through a phone's OS, browser geolocation, IP address, and finally zip code.
- CSoftware EngineerCenter for Global Policy Solutions PSN NARAL NGP VAN DNCAug 2010 - Jun 2015 (4 years 11 months)
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- Bachelor of Science - BS, Film and TelevisionBoston University
- Bachelor of Arts - BA, PhilosophyBoston University
- Master's degree, Computer ScienceHunter College
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- EEmpty DesksMEAN stack app - Mongo, Express, Angular, Node - and deployed on AWS, this app allows users to collaborate on shared tasks - work, projects, chores, anything. Also includes calendar integration to set dates and coordinate more efficiently.
- BBrowserSTREAMSA Node, Express, Postgres, and Angular app where users are able to browse across multiple online streaming services – Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and Amazon. Data is gathered from the Guidebox API and supplemented with data from IMDb and occasional Cheerio scraping. Currently building an iOS app in Swift 3 and Xcode to consume the web API.
- WWanderListNode.js and Express back end, JS, jQuery, AJAX, Boostrap, and Mapbox API front end with a structure influenced by backbone. Users visualize their travels on a virtual pin-board, mapping their geographical conquests and desires.