Gacoka M
Product Manager - PMA at Palo Alto Networks
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolGacoka M is a product-minded technologist with 8 years of experience blending applied AI, software engineering, and startup leadership across Silicon Valley. Currently a Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks and founder of CySuite, he pairs hands-on ML and full-stack engineering experience with investor pitching and go-to-market skills. He built AI-driven SAT prep systems that boosted users’ scores by ~110 points using hybrid supervised and reinforcement learning, deployed on Django/Postgres and Dockerized to AWS. Prior roles at DEEPCORE, HashiCorp, and Google programs show a pattern of shipping data-driven products, optimizing developer workflows, and scaling prototypes into users-facing launches. Based in San Jose with a Computational Science degree from Minerva, he brings both a research-rooted approach to problem solving and practical experience turning models into product features.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computational Science, Bachelor's degree, Computational Science at Minerva University
English
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Github Skills (102)
bokeh9
ipywidgets9
web-automation9
graph-traversal9
visualization9
data-visualisation9
jupyter9
selenium-webdriver9
anonymous9
pyodide8
browser8
javascript8
altair8
python8
expressions8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
markgacoka/codepropertygraph
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
A Python implementation of a language-agnostic Code Property Graph
Contributions:4 releases, 79 commits, 71 PRs in 6 months
graph-traversalpythoncode-property-graphagnosticpython-implementation
markgacoka/CySuite
Jul 2021 - Mar 2023
CySuite is an all-in-one security testing tool that automates bug hunting checklists on web targets. It hosts additional tools such as request manipulators, wordlist generators and decoders.
Contributions:93 PRs, 84 pushes, 55 branches in 1 year 8 months
bug-huntingbugbountyautomatespentesthunting
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