Summary
Alexander Hudek is a strategic advisor and AI/ML leader with 15 years of experience translating deep academic research into high-impact commercial products. He co-founded and served as CTO of Kira Systems, helping build contract-review AI that analyzed hundreds of thousands of documents monthly and was trusted in over $100 billion in transactions. His background blends a PhD and postdoctoral work in bioinformatics and formal logic with early genomic research at SickKids, giving him a rare mix of probabilistic machine learning and symbolic reasoning expertise. Alexander now advises research, product, technology and design teams to operationalize trustworthy AI in enterprise settings, and is the author of AI for Lawyers, a practical guide connecting legal workflows to modern AI. A scientist-turned-founder, he’s comfortable moving between code, theory, and product strategy to drive adoption of complex AI systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Physics and Computer Science Specialist, Physics and Computer Science Specialist at University of Toronto
Master's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at University of Waterloo