Frank Speiser

Perpetually curious and engaging executive with experience in managing product, technology, operations and team-building. Always looking to make the present situation better, the team and customer happier and the opportunity bigger. Previously, the Chief Executive Officer at Talla (http://www.talla.com) - leading the way toward an artificial-intelligence augmented workforce. Every worker should have assistance for process automation and knowledge sharing.Previously, Co-Founder of SocialFlow (http://socialflow.com), the leading social media optimization SaaS solution and data suite. We predictively model and price attention on the social graph. I was responsible for technology, product vision, research, team building and strategy.Specialties: Open source architecture, scalability, technical team management, technical talent recruiting, technical contract negotiation, viability analysis, hardware planning, scaling, application development (mobile, web, standalone), online and mobile gaming. Extensive hands-on experience with cloud computing (Amazon (EC2/ S3), Google Compute Cloud) and cloud computing testing and application, large data sets and databases (AWS Redshift, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB, postgresql, MySQL, Oracle). Experience managing geographically diverse teams with multiple languages and protocols. Frequent speaker and adviser on start-up business practices, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning conceptualization, design, coding and implementations. Creator of several large-scale Artificial Intelligence systems currently in production. Algorithm developer and creator. I've appeared in several books on data, startups and marketing and have written about technical matters for The Guardian, Forbes and others, but I much prefer doing things instead of just talking about them. I have taken a circuitous route through secondary education, but I believe it is everyone's responsibility in this globally connected economy to keep learning and growing.