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Pepe is pragmatic, passionate and always willing to help, “a technical powerhouse” who applies his craft to new technical domains. He has a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering as well as a Master’s in Electrical Engineering. What interests him about AI is the scale of problems. He has several roles including cloud maintenance and development, and implementing new solutions to support operations.

Philip brings experience in manned submersibles to the BrightAI challenge of pipe inspection robotics, developing both hardware and software. He enjoys seeing how our products can improve a critical infrastructure system using AI. Philip’s diverse industry experience includes the field of medical systems and medical imaging, and he co-authored the patent for MRI Kinematic Imaging. He also developed a system for monitoring brain activity that received a Medical Design Excellence Award.  

Sam is the go-to person for web technology at BrightAI. Within 8 months, he was voted in the top three for being the “absolute most impressive teammate”. He has a similar impact with customers for whom he delivers dashboards that drive their new AI tools. He enjoys the freedom a start-up gives. It means he can problem-solve faster and have more influence over the technology he innovates with.

Emily is a seasoned UX Designer with over 10 years of experience in IoT. Her passion for creating seamless user experiences and building new products shines through in her work, where she expertly combines technology and human interaction. She is a graduate of Web Design and Interactive Media.

Erin Dudley has a wide range of experience in marketing, customer relations, and internal communications. With this being her third start-up, Erin is accustomed to setting up new organizations for growth. At BrightAI, she has also played a pivotal role in establishing the entire spectrum of business operations from the ground up, encompassing onboarding, contract management, finance, compelling newsletter creation, and facilitating productive team meetings. She enjoys identifying marketing opportunities and creating solutions.

Based in Minnesota, Graham Ferris is known as Bright AI’s own Swiss army knife – he’s well-liked, flexible, fits in where he is needed and makes an immediate impact on projects. He was attracted to BrightAI for the chance to develop exciting projects. He studied electrical engineering and joined BrightAI in January 2022.

Ethan Fry has a reputation for being the one to call when you have a tricky problem because they won’t quit until it is resolved. Ethan has a passion for learning new things, excels at technical levels, and is able to provide an impressive amount of detail. Ethan joins other BrightAI staff with a history at SmartThings. As well as having startup experience, Ethan also understands the culture of large corporations (IBM, Samsung).

Logan is a software engineer with a passion for cloud and AI technologies. His role involves designing, planning, building, deploying, and managing BrightAI’s cloud infrastructure and associated applications. He shares the company’s commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technologies and enjoys working in a dynamic start-up environment, where there's never a dull moment.

Bryce, a Computer Engineering graduate, has excelled in firmware design, ASIC validation and application development. A protocol expert, he has designed multiple Smart Grid protocols and implemented many others. He has also designed extensive firmware validation processes and supporting infrastructure (code/tests). He developed a successful open-source webOS application for streaming a personal music collection with 100,000+ downloads.

Having joined BrightAI in December 2021, Ben Godding has the uncanny ability to mix taking chances with new tools and technologies alongside showing restraint and focus in solving the problem at hand. He is highly self-sufficient and motivated by the drive to make products that improve speed to market without sacrificing quality. An engineering graduate, he invents in his spare time which gives him a vast skill set including versatility and the ability to think outside of the box.

Ryan exemplifies the impact that a strong tech lead can have on a solution integration, cutting through previous challenges to bring everything together in a pragmatic way. He was one of the top three “absolute most impressive teammates”, nominated by his colleagues. Testimony to his record as an inventor, he has approximately 100 patents to his name.

Pinar is a seasoned finance professional and an engineer by training, having spent her 20+ year career in infrastructure investment, project finance, business development, and project controls for complex industrial capital projects before joining BrightAI. She enjoys combining quantitative skills and analysis with the commercial, operational, and strategic aspects of a business. 

Chris Herbig’s ability to connect and build trustworthy relationships with customers at all levels is his superpower. He brings an “all hands to the pump” start-up mentality to problems, working with clients to solve their most complex challenges together. These include navigating through digital transformations, migrating old applications to the cloud, creating visions for new products and bringing them to market, and delivering software in more innovative and agile ways.

Logan has a diverse working background in technology, with a personal interest in Linux systems and deployment automation. At BrightAI, he works in technical support. He loves exploring different aspects of a problem when finding solutions. Logan also enjoys working with a team with a wide range of backgrounds. He is most interested in seeing the applications people find for AI and how it affects their lives.

John is described as “fantastic to work with” and someone who can handle anything thrown at him. His colleagues say he is thoughtful and caring. He has over 15 years of Product, Quality Assurance, and Project Management experience. Results-driven, John is highly skilled in managing dynamic, fast-moving, cross-functional teams. He fosters a creative, collaborative environment to find quality solutions to difficult problems.

Based in Tuscon, Arizona, Jacob Kromer is known for his ability to spin up quickly and deliver under pressure. A computer technician with over 14 years of experience, his background is in audio engineering. He formerly worked for Family Life Radio as a Broadcast IT Specialist and attended the technical school of the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Kyle is an engineering leader who is not afraid of being hands-on and loves solving complex problems. He harnesses his insatiable curiosity to find the best ways to merge hardware, software and experiences to deliver AI that transforms businesses across multiple industries. Kyle has more than fifteen years of experience in software engineering and architecture with expertise in developing mobile and cloud platforms at scale.

Nancy is an influential AI and metaverse industry leader known for her fearless approach to accelerating AI commercial adoption across real-world industries. She’s leading our product vision to build “Blue Collar” AI copilots for the 2 billion frontline workforce. Focusing on infrastructure services industries, this could solve the skilled labor shortage and sustainability crisis. Named a Woman of AI Leadership by Venturebeat, she serves as an advisory board member for the International Women of Influence Network.

Mason’s greatest passion is for building robust, maintainable, and enjoyable iOS and web-based applications for companies ranging from Fortune 500s to start-ups. In charge of four client software teams, he has over 20 years of experience leading and developing mobile and web-based projects. Mason worked with server-side scripting technologies which later evolved to mature frameworks, such as Java and .NET backends.

Jon Magnuson was drawn to BrightAI to work on building cutting-edge technology from the ground up and see it mature into something that positively impacts peoples' everyday lives. His vision is that AIoT will further connect the physical world to the digital one, and will soon enlighten and inform us about the world we live in at a much deeper level than we could have ever imagined.

Jim leads the Commercial side of BrightAI and says he loves working with customers to understand how AI can help them solve their biggest challenges or create new opportunities to grow their businesses. He was drawn to BrightAI from meeting the founders and understanding their vision for AIoT. He loves how AI has progressed from a "nice to have" to a "must have" in today's business environment. He brings a diversity of experience from e-Commerce, Retail, Supply Chain, Logistics, Technology, SaaS, and Wireless.

Joshua began his career with technology in the US military. A graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, he joined BrightAI because he believes the position is a natural fit for his growth as an engineer. He provides custom Linux-based systems for embedded devices. Known as a hard worker and strong contributor who makes an immediate impact, what interests him most about AI is the potential in the market for creating new products.

Bruce Morton is indispensable—his ability to find alternate parts during the pandemic hardware crisis is legendary. As an electrical design engineer with experience developing marine electronics, he designed and built a manned submarine to explore the wreck of the Titanic. In addition to his electrical design responsibilities, he helps manage our overseas contract manufacturers.

Pat considers the most exciting part of his role to be working with different technical domains. He is most interested to see how AI will transform everyday life and “really disrupt the status quo”. He drives system architecture and product direction while writing embedded software. As a tech lead, he helps drive priority, staffing resources, and technical leadership across all BrightAI verticals.

Sean is always thinking of better ways of doing things, improving efficiency, and reducing costs. He is responsible for the architecture, implementation, and maintenance of the entire cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and automation. He enjoys applying his practical skills and expertise to create positive change in the world. He speaks both Vietnamese and Japanese.

Emily brings ambition and initiative to BrightAI. She has worked on autonomous aircraft, smart devices and machine-learning solutions and is known for the design and development of technological solutions. These include an inference model for camera shutter control and architecture to customize camera features based on user input and alarm state. Emily also developed a prototype for a smart home product using Apple Homekit and designed a strategy for creating a Homekit-compliant application.

Tyler’s title belies what his colleagues know him as—a “jack of all trades”—with tenacity in his attention to detail. His patience and understanding enable him to help teams work together to solve problems. Tyler enjoys working with diverse companies, helping them overcome technical challenges and plans to keep challenging himself to expand his technical knowledge.

Micah loves working with his colleagues solving issues and identifying the best solutions to complex problems. He’s known for his attention to detail, handling every aspect of a project with the same level of precision. He is interested in moulding AI solutions and using AI together with human creativity to bring tremendous value to society. Micah’s previous experience leading teams across a wide geographical area is a perfect fit for BrightAI’s remote teams.

Paul is a technical leader with over 25 years of experience in all aspects of software product development and deep expertise with new and established technologies. He builds customer-facing products through the development of high-performance teams. He is described as a brilliant product creator who gets the best out of his staff.

Kevin is building cloud solutions that connect Edge devices, AI pipelines, and web/mobile clients. He believes AI offers promise in helping people to be more efficient and effective by allowing them to focus time and resources on solving problems that machines can't solve. Kevin loves to constantly learn, whether it's exploring new technologies, delving deeper into tech already familiar to him, or learning about the industries we serve. He has worked in IoT for the past six years and has 25+ years of experience in the tech industry.

Kevin enjoys creating things that make other people’s jobs easier.  He finds AI amazing and says the fact that you can give a machine a training dataset and it figures out the relations and patterns all by itself is “crazy” to him. His team uses AI in the pest control industry to enable companies to deal with these issues more efficiently and humanely. He enjoys the start-up atmosphere where what we create has a real impact on businesses and people's lives.

BrightAI is Sammi’s third experience with a start-up, attracting her because it’s not just AI for the sake of AI, but practical help for businesses. The advantages of working for a smaller company include trying her hand at different things and collaborating with people who she wouldn't traditionally get to work with in a big company. She is a front-end engineer but also does cloud work, and is learning different things every day.

Kevin ensures BrightAI’s fleet of devices runs on a stable platform. He’s involved whether the discussion is hardware or software. What he loves most is wearing multiple hats on any given day, to help solve challenging problems. Kevin believes the AI space is a budding market ripe for rapid growth and hopes BrightAI can make a big splash in this arena.

The chance to apply AI technology to industries and transform how they approach work is what drew Haidong to BrightAI. He also likes the intersection of AI and IoT. He supports the AI engineering team and is responsible for their strategy, roadmap, and execution. He enjoys getting to work with very talented engineers and bringing cutting-edge AI technologies to industries that are underserved by technology. He believes AI will provide humans with “superpowers” and enable them to achieve more with less.

Susanne oversees BrightAI's international hardware and software teams, ensuring the integration of advanced AI and next-gen sensors. She brings deep expertise in product development to BrightAI's visual AI platform, developing multimodal AI that delivers unique insights across diverse commercial and industrial environments. She consistently delights customers with AI/IoT solutions that are simple and transformative.