Summary
Jeff Risberg is a principal software architect and seasoned entrepreneur with four decades of hands-on engineering and leadership across enterprise software, AI, and analytics. He co-founded key real-time and integration technologies at TIBCO, led product and architecture at Aisera (now part of Automation Anywhere), and has driven successful startups and seven exits including one $1B+ outcome. Equally comfortable at the whiteboard and in the codebase, he architects distributed microservices, ML/NLP pipelines, and front-end channels while mentoring cross-functional teams. His background spans finance-grade real-time systems, search-based marketing optimization, social health gaming, and environmental analytics, reflecting a rare mix of domain depth and technical breadth. A Stanford Sloan Fellow and long-time angel/advisor, he combines startup strategy with production-grade delivery across Java, Python, Kubernetes, TensorFlow and cloud platforms. Less obvious: he has repeatedly taken technical leadership roles midstream—accelerating delivery velocity by factors of several while guiding M&A integrations and product pivots.
11 years of coding experience
47 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Sloan Fellow | Masters in Management Business Administration with focus on startups and VC, M.S. Sloan Fellow | Masters in Management Business Administration with focus on startups and VC at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Sc.B. Applied Mathematics, Sc.B. Applied Mathematics at Brown University
M.S. Engineering and Applied Science, M.S. Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University
Visiting Graduate Fellow, Visiting Graduate Fellow at Princeton University
java, node.js, scala, html/css, python