Joseph Perla is a highly experienced and accomplished technology leader in San Francisco. With a background in computer science, philosophy, economics, and art history, Joseph has made significant contributions to prominent companies like Facebook and Lyft. He is a former Facebook tech lead and serial entrepreneur with a passion for innovation, team building, and product delivery. His technical expertise spans a wide range of areas, including mobile, infrastructure, web, autonomous vehicles, and data-driven growth. Joseph possesses a proven track record of building successful teams, mentoring, advising, and incubating startups.

Joseph's educational background includes pursuing a Ph.D. in machine learning with a focus on advisor Charles Elkan at Princeton University. He currently leads TTFM Labs, and he is a former SF Lead at EndCOVID.org, machine learning expert in level 5 autonomous driving at Lyft, and Plato Mentor - Engineering leadership at Plato.

His expertise spans entrepreneurship, project management, recruiting, strategy, business planning, systems architecture, advanced algorithm design and coding, business models, venture capital, fundraising, incubators, mentoring, advising, and many others. Joseph is proficient in several programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, and C#, among many others.

Joseph is passionate about advancing the tech industry and has served on the Board of the Theatre Bay Area. He co-founded several startups, including Terminal.com(CloudLabs, Inc), Turntable.fm, Labmeeting, Inc, and Zandigo.

Joseph's professional experience, expertise, skills, and interests can be summarized as follows.