David Stroud
Founder at Ishtar AI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Stroud is the founder and CEO of Ishtar AI, building an autonomous, edge-native geopolitical intelligence platform that produces finished IC‑standard products for defense, energy, and critical infrastructure. A former Force Recon Marine turned Wall Street energy derivatives trader and machine learning engineer, he blends operational intelligence, quantitative trading instincts, and production ML experience to solve high-stakes problems. He previously architected the pilot Ishtar platform at Fox Corporation and led RL-driven recommendation systems as a senior ML engineer at Employbridge and The Adecco Group. Author of "Advanced Large Language Model Operations," he brings practical MLOps expertise in deploying multi-agent LLM systems and edge-first, fast‑deploying architectures. Ishtar AI is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned SMB focused on rapid (30–90 day) deployments and human-validated, machine-drafted intelligence for global defense and energy customers. Currently based in New York, he is actively scaling into Gulf markets via Hub71+ applications, signaling a strategic push into regional defense and energy partnerships.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science - Machine Learning Specialization, Master's degree, Data Science - Machine Learning Specialization at Southern Methodist UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Accounting, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Accounting at Troy University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
deep-reinforcement-learning9
reinforcement-learning8
compilation8
xml6
nokogiri6
nginx6
hydrogen6
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
jupyter-kernels6
command-line6
webfaction6
ruby6
sublime-text6
inspect5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RL-Research-Cohiba/Reinforcement_Learning
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Reinforcement Learning research
Contributions:107 commits, 2 PRs, 107 pushes in 1 year 4 months
reinforcement-learningreinforcementdeep-reinforcement-learning
davestroud/davidstroud
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:136 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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