Sasha Uritsky
Toronto, ON M2N 7C--https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sasha-uritsky-9a64102b
Career Profile
Top AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) expert, with more than 15 years of
experience in the space. Scientific papers in ML published. Experienced executive,
combining years of leadership roles delivering groundbreaking software solutions with
business acumen and organizational leadership.
Selected Career Highlights
Launched a pioneering Set Top Box with scrambled data protection and live playback for
Sky Corp. (BSkyB Sky+). More than 1M units sold.
§ Founded and led conversational AI company, an emerging leader in the conversational
AI space.
§ Expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine
Learning, Deep Learning, Text Analytics. Hands on knowledge of IBM Watson, Microsoft
LUIS, DialogFlow (API.AI), wit.ai, recast.ai, MS Bot Framework, Bluemix, TensorFlow,
PyTorch, Keras ML libraries, vectorization (seq2seq, word2vec, sentence2vec), neural
networks (RNN/LSTM/GRU).
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Professional Experience
nmodes, Toronto
Jan 2010 – present
CEO
Nmodes creates AI solutions for the business sales process.
Provider of AI training to engage in conversations based on the business requirements.
Provides support for multiple UI (website, mobile apps, Facebook, Telegram, Skype, Slack,
SMS , email).
As a leader of the company I was responsible for
- integrations with industry AI Engines (IBM Watson, LUIS, DialogFlow wit.ai, recast.ai, Amazon
Lex), various bot frameworks and platforms (MS Bot Framework, Bluemix, Amazon services,
etc).
- official partnership with IBM.
- ability to connect AI to web interfaces, social interfaces (e.g. Twitter), messenger platform
interfaces (e.g. Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Slack, Skype), Twilio (SMS), etc.
- integrations with ML and NLP libraries.
- top level programming capabilities as well as professional project management skills to
guarantee the delivery of your project on time. Among programming languages: Java,
Angular.js, Node.js, React.js, python, javascript, C# (.NET).
ComQi (former Enqii) Toronto/London UK
March 2006 to Nov 2009
Director of development
Led next generation development of the main product – digital signage software.
Established proper SDLC methodology, hired the technical personnel, created QA team.
Worked closely with the customers, dealing with their change requests, functional requirements.
Among the customers were Walmart, TTC.
Provided subject matter expertise on all technical matters including hardware, drivers, Linux
platform, programming, system integrations, and version control. Used C/C++, Java, Groovy,
Sybase SQL, ClearCase, ANT, Eclipse, JBoss, SOAP, WSDL, JSON.
My major accomplishment was creating the proper development process, stabilizing the
development team and increasing revenue growth by making the system support 500
customers.
IBM Algorithmics, Toronto
Aug 2003 to Jan 2006
Software Engineer
Developed components of the financial risk package.
Integrated two major components of the risk management software with the system analyzing
tool.
Developed communication level networking protocol.
Developed network based tool scanning main product
Calculated algorithms efficiency and optimizations for the financial risk assessment package.
NDS BSkyB, Israel/London UK
May 1998 to Aug 2002
Software Engineer
Leading core team that designed, developed and launched the XTV for Sky+ project.
Designed and coded journaling protection layer for the XTV file system.
Ported XTV middleware to the NEC, ST hardware platforms.
Developed RASP (Random Access Scrambled Stream Protocol) low level API for scrambled
video processing, based on MPEG2 TS.
Created technical specification, both on design and API level, for the data base module, and for
the secure file system.
Worked with BSkyB, NEC, Pace, OpenTV.
Education
1998 Bachelor in Computer Science University of Jerusalem, Israel
Languages
English, French, Hebrew, Russian
