Jacob Staley
Technical Product Director at CNTXT AI
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Staley is a Technical Product Director and founder with 15 years of experience building AI-first products that bridge deep engineering, research, and go-to-market strategy. He has repeatedly taken systems from 0-to-1—publishing and productionizing research, leading distributed training on terabytes of data, and shipping multi-tenant SaaS for healthcare and content at scale. Comfortable toggling between hands-on model work (LLMs, RAG, generative models, edge-optimized nets) and executive roadmaps, he has led cross-functional teams to deliver clinical imaging, multimodal EHR/radiology platforms, and localized generative content services. His background spans a PhD in photonics and early embedded systems work, giving him rare expertise in both physical instrumentation and large-scale ML pipelines. Based in Abu Dhabi, he favors roles that combine societal impact with technical depth and has a track record of turning novel research into commercial products and paid pilots across continents.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Photonics, Ph.D., Photonics at University of TwenteB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at University of Kansas
Github Skills (117)
text-to-image10
generative-model10
nlp8
hyperparameter-tuning8
application8
job-queue8
animation8
bayesian-methods8
deep-learning8
datasets8
speech8
image-synthesis8
language-modeling8
artificial-intelligence8
cost-optimization7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nhjun/AO-KWave-MCBoost
Dec 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:80 commits in 10 months
jacobwjs/imagen-pytorch
May 2022 - Aug 2023
Implementation of Imagen, Google's Text-to-Image Neural Network, in Pytorch
Contributions:7 PRs, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
pytorchneural-networktext-to-image
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