Summary
Hugo Latapie is a founder and CEO with 30+ years building mission-critical systems and a decade focused on neurosymbolic AI, now leading Taijitu AI to deliver trustworthy, self-evolving models for high-stakes domains. Backed by Microsoft and grounded in prior principal engineering work at Cisco, he blends deep expertise across distributed systems, compilers, databases, embedded security, and machine perception to create interpretable, high-performance AI that augments human decision-making. A prolific inventor with 33 issued U.S. patents and 61 published applications, Hugo couples rigorous applied research (academic publications and book chapter) with product-focused IP that underpins Taijitu’s July 2025 launch. He has repeatedly moved complex defense, medical, fintech, and telecom problems from prototype to production, and is available for consulting and strategic partnerships ahead of product release.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach