Donato Borrello

Donato Borrello is an experienced engineering and product leader with a strong background in writing semicolons, leading teams, and delivering innovative products. With over 10 years of experience, he is known for his deep dive into technical problems and has demonstrated thought leadership across various domains. His unique designs at the intersection of privacy and personalization have led to the creation of multiple patents and a proven track record of building highly effective teams.

In the academic realm, Donato has made significant contributions through his publications such as 'Real-time Captioning by Non-Experts,' which was nominated for Best Paper at the 25th Annual UIST Conference 2012, and 'Online Sequence Alignment for Real-Time Audio Transcription by Non-Experts,' published at the 26th Annual AAAI Conference 2012.

Aside from his academic achievements, Donato has also had a diverse array of other significant contributions. He founded and successfully exited from Local Values LLC, a real estate investment company and led the establishment of Election Reform New York, advocating for Instant Runoff elections in NY. Additionally, he has contributed code to various projects including Google's Karma repository and Shaka repository, as well as Blender, a popular open-source 3D modeling engine. Furthermore, he has conducted security research for KingsOfChaos.com, contributed artistically to Planeshift.it, and consulted for AI-Coin, a unique bitcoin variant focusing on sub-second transactions. Donato has also been a part of the think tank at MiMedia, a Brooklyn-based startup specializing in cloud storage solutions for media.

Donato Borrello pursued his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. His professional journey includes roles at prestigious companies such as Google and JW Player, where he served in various capacities ranging from Staff Software Engineer to Technical Lead/Manager. Prior to this, he gained experience as a Senior Software Engineer at JW Player, Software Engineer at FactSet Research Systems, Research Engineer at the University of Rochester, and Web Developer at IntelliSites.