Cory Root
Innovation Principal
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolCory Root is an innovation-focused data and AI leader with 13 years of experience building data science and ML teams, from founding labs to scaling production systems across retail, security, and IoT. As an Innovation Principal and former Director of AI roles, he has driven in-house ML adoption, led the largest live biometric bias study to date, and holds 21 patents tied to products that generated over $100M in revenue. He blends business and technical fluency to align governance, MLOps, and ethical AI with clear commercial outcomes, shifting organizations from reseller to proprietary-technology mindsets. Cory has hands-on experience deploying edge ML on embedded hardware and orchestrating cross-functional launches during high-stakes rollouts like the Intuit Dome opening. Equally at home with TensorFlow/PyTorch and enterprise data strategy, he emphasizes simplicity, explicitness, and responsible technology use inspired by the Zen of Python. Outside work he fuels curiosity with mechanical puzzles, origami, and science toys—small rituals that reflect a practical, inquisitive approach to innovation.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.) Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Cypress CollegeBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer SciencesUniversity of California, Irvine
Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (98)
swagger10
oas10
rest-api10
openapi10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
wolfram-language10
rtsp-client10
multi-user10
jupyter-notebook10
async9
javascript9
raspberry-pi-camera9
computer-vision9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dactylroot/Elf-Parser
Oct 2012 - May 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 9 pushes, 3 tags in 5 years 8 months
dactylroot/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 issue in 6 years 11 months
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