Dan Rapp
Chief AI And Data Officer
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Rapp is a seasoned technology executive with 13+ years leading AI, data and engineering teams and a career spanning enterprise software, cybersecurity, and clean energy. As Chief AI and Data Officer at Proofpoint he defines the company’s AI operational model and runs the AI Forge COE to apply responsible AI to threat detection, compliance, and product innovation. He has a proven track record of building ML centers of excellence, driving cloud modernization for large-scale compliance systems, and operationalizing GenAI and LLMs across products and internal workflows. Earlier roles as CTO of Vivint Solar and senior technical leadership at FamilySearch and IBM reflect a rare combination of deep applied research (big data, handwriting recognition, graph theory) and product-focused execution. Based in Salt Lake City, he blends hands-on technical fluency in Python, Docker, and Kubernetes with executive strategy and customer-facing evangelism. A physicist by training, he often bridges academic rigor and pragmatic engineering to turn cutting-edge research into production impact.
13 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Applied Physics, B.S. Applied Physics at Brigham Young University
English, German
Github Skills (71)
cython10
git-history10
binary-tree10
text-classification10
named-entity-recognition10
ai9
nlp9
entity-linking9
python9
deep-learning9
machine-learning9
spacy9
tsne9
data-science9
artificial-intelligence9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rappdw/tsne-perf-test
Apr 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 5 months
resero-labs/docker-utils
Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
Command Line Utilities/Patterns for Using Docker with Python
Contributions:29 releases, 1 review, 105 commits in 3 years 2 months
command-linedockerpython
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