Joe Alicata
CTO Co-Founder at Ava
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Alicata is a seasoned technology executive and founder with 11+ years leading product, engineering, and commercial teams to build high-traffic consumer, media, and SaaS platforms. As CTO and Co-Founder of Ava and former Chief Product & Technology Officer at Motorsport Network, he has a proven record of launching and scaling revenue-generating products across web and mobile at global scale. His Google tenure shaping Image Search and Visual Search put him at the intersection of ML/perception and consumer search experiences impacting billions of daily users. Joe combines deep systems and product instincts—from architecting high-availability platforms at ESPN and Walt Disney Internet Group to commercializing ad and data products at Vox Media—to drive sustainable growth. He often operates where partnerships, monetization, and emerging AI meet product, bringing both startup grit and enterprise execution. Based in New York, he blends hands-on engineering roots with executive strategy to turn complex technical capabilities into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering / Computer Science, BS Computer Engineering / Computer Science at University of HartfordProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alicata/mixbag
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
alicata/pyspark_aiuto
Apr 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
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