James Shanahan
Managing Partner, Technology And Innovation
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Shanahan is a seasoned AI and data-science executive with a PhD in machine learning and a 30+ year career building and commercializing large-scale ML, computer vision, and agentic GenAI solutions. As Managing Partner at Mind Moves he has driven 10x revenue growth and landed flagship federal and commercial projects—ranging from NIH/NLM biomedical work to telecom AIOps and trading platforms—while still coding alongside his teams. He co-founded and teaches scalable machine learning at UC Berkeley’s MIDS, translating petabyte-scale systems knowledge (Spark/Hadoop) into practical curricula and industry-ready pipelines. His background spans research-led innovation at Xerox and AT&T to product-grade architectures for adtech, search, and edge computing, demonstrating a rare blend of patents, publications, and hands-on systems work. Active in investment and advisory roles, he helps align AI strategy with national research missions and enterprise priorities. A detail that surprises clients: despite executive responsibilities he remains deeply involved in implementation, contributing directly to prototype and production code.
8 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc. Computer Science and Business, B. Sc. Computer Science and Business at University of LimerickPhD Machine Learning, PhD Machine Learning at University of Bristol
English, Japanese, French, Irish
Github Skills (14)
java6
python6
pose6
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
computer-vision5
cntk4
pytorch4
neural-network4
pose-estimation3
microsoft3
deep-neural-networks3
tensorflow3
openface2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
UCB-w261/w261-environment
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes in 7 months
cadgip/cadgip.github.io
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
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