Georgia Institute of Technology

Poolesville High School

Building fantastic technology and product teams. (Recently acquired)

Premier non-profit organization promoting and facilitating technology entrepreneurship in Atlanta, Georgia.

Startup Atlanta

Board Member

Magic Data is an AI-enabled IDE that will ask you the right questions, explore your data, architecture your pipeline, write code, and deploy everything for you. A true reasoning platform for Data Engineering. Have your data moving, processing and empowering your operations ridiculously fast.

Magic Data

Chief Executive Officer

Joining the Atlanta Technology Development Center at Georgia Tech as Research Faculty and Entrepreneur in Residence. 

Sharing my own experience leading and exiting software companies to help early to mid-stage tech founders optimize for the best outcomes for their businesses.

Research Faculty / Entrepreneur in Residence

Founded the firm to provide teams of fractional super senior technical talent. Helping multiple clients: 
1. Plan, scope, and execute cloud migrations.  
2. Architect and hire entire engineering teams.  
3. Build MVPs or V2s. 
4. Source and structure channel partnerships. 
5. Diligence acquisition opportunities.  
6. Become investor-ready, and even help you prepare the business for sale.

Special Sauce Labs

Led process to close the acquisition of Earnifi by Bankless HQ.

Improved investor readiness across operational excellence, legal, web infrastructure security, product, book keeping, & tax prep alongside management.

Earnifi

Interim VP (acquired by Bankless)

Led a team to build an automotive credit business, data pipeline, and loan origination process that can help gig workers finance the purchase of vehicles while avoiding B-Lots.

Buckle

Chief Technology Officer - Credit

I led Stackfolio as it sold its platform and suite of technologies to Jack Henry in 2021. 
- Led the transition of Stackfolio's technology into the enterprise. 
- Joined the Product organization to help define the future of Jack Henry Lending’s data strategy. 
- Defined new business cases and products around existing proprietary data sets.
- Collaborated across Jack Henry’s technology leadership to create new integrations with Jack Henry Lending products.

Jack Henry & Associates

Product Advisor (Post Acquisition by $JKHY)

Bloomberg LP under the Portfolio and Risk Analytics team.
Integrated time series trend functionality into Portfolio function on the Bloomberg terminal.
Developed a distributed Value at Risk calculation system using Apache Spark and Cassandra.

Bloomberg LP

Software Engineer

The online marketplace for institutional loan trading. Billions of dollars in loan assets listed. Hundreds of institutional users. Backed by a powerful data research platform. 

We built this company from the ground up. Stackfolio was acquired by Jack Henry and Associates in 2021.

Stackfolio (acquired by $JKHY)

Co-Founder/CEO (Acquired by $JKHY)

Working under Dr. Thad Starner (wearable computing pioneer) on the following projects:
- American Sign Language recognition & wearable socially viable interfaces for disabled persons (Published).
- Techniques for Silent Speech Recognition for freeform voice recognition without voice input (Patent Pending & Published). The project has since been funded by Google.
- Developed novel techniques for hand detection and tracking in depth data (Published).

Georgia Tech Contextual Computing Group

Researcher 

Founded and Directed HexLabs (formerly HackGT), a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Grew the team to over 40 people. Raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

HexLabs now operates one of the top 5 national hackathon organizations in the country, running educational programs for high school, collegiate, and graduate level students. With over a dozen top tier corporate partners across the fortune 1000 and tech top 100, HexLabs is a powerhouse for technology innovation in Atlanta.

HexLabs, Inc.

Co-Founder / Director

Most work classified. Built expertise in signals and computer vision.

United States Department of Defense

Employee

Research contractor for the ExplorEcon research group at the University of Chicago. Worked on object recognition software using Google Street View.

ExplorEcon at University of Chicago

Research Contractor

- Worked under professor Rama Chellappa, Chair of the Electrical Engineering 
Department at the University of Maryland, College Park 
- Created an improved algorithm for automatically estimating age, based on images of a humans face. 
- Used relevance vector machine regression and multi-classifier fusion to create a new algorithm.
- Results proved fruitful as they out performed most state of the art approaches. 

**Work was published at IEEE ICASSP**

University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Researcher

- Lead Programmer on Immune Attack for Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC. 
- Immune Attack is a three dimensional video game that teaches 6-12th grade students molecular and cellular immunology. 
- Primary software individual contributor working with the project director and development team, created the first model of a puzzle based Immune Attack game.

Pavleen Thukral