Summary
Edilmo Palencia is a hands-on technical lead and AI veteran with over 20 years of experience designing, implementing, and shipping large-scale software and hardware systems across startups and enterprises. He has led cross-functional teams at Google, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and VMware, specializing in Deep Reinforcement Learning (Offline and Continual RL), distributed training, and production ML platforms. As a founder of Mammut.io he built scalable conversational AI infrastructure, and earlier work spans hardware, firmware and secure voting systems—evidence of a rare full-stack systems-to-ML breadth. Based in Fremont, he combines product-focused leadership with research-minded engineering, driving ML features from causal inference experiments to automated root-cause analysis in production. Actively volunteering with Code for Venezuela, he also brings global deployment experience and a pragmatic knack for turning complex algorithms into reliable, distributed services.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished Biotechnology, Unfinished Biotechnology at Universidad Simón Bolívar
English, Spanish