Alex Bannon
Head Of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning at Knology
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Bannon is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of software experience, currently Head of Engineering for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Personio in New York. He has led cross-functional ML, backend, and data engineering teams to build safe content distribution systems at Spotify, orchestrating both in-house modeling and third-party integrations like OpenAI and HiveAI. Previously he managed payments at Zip Co—responsible for roughly $3bn in annual transaction volume—driving a migration from monolith to microservices, scaling systems through 300%+ YoY growth, and overhauling hiring to reduce bias. A former CTO/co‑founder of a FinTech mobile ordering app and Head of Engineering at Kaplan, Alex is hands-on across Rails, Node, React and cloud stacks and has driven initiatives such as raising test coverage from 0% to 90% and instituting CI. He also serves on the board of Knology, blending technical leadership with a policy-minded, human-centered approach informed by degrees in Film & Television and Philosophy—an uncommon combination that shapes how he communicates vision and product strategy.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Non Degree, Computer Science, Non Degree, Computer Science at Hunter CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Film and Television, Bachelor of Science - BS, Film and Television at Boston University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (44)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexbannon/wanderlist
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:34 PRs, 128 pushes, 2 branches in 25 days
alexbannon/flake
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
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