Joe Sumpter
Founder And Innovation Consultant
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Sumpter is an executive technology leader and founder with over 20 years of experience building and commercializing AI-enabled platforms across startups, nonprofits, and Fortune 100s. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership—having led emerging-technology teams at Starbucks and driven 20+ issued patents in computer vision, smart access, conversational interfaces, and fraud detection—into a pragmatic builder’s approach that prioritizes real-world deployments. As founder of Tech Levitate and Studio Canvas AI, he helps game studios and creators scale generative media and Unity-based asset pipelines while also serving as fractional CTO for growth-stage companies. He’s active in selective innovation ecosystems (NVIDIA Inception, Techstars, HeyGen) and brings cross-functional fluency in product, engineering, and go-to-market strategy. Notably, his background spans both enterprise hardware/IoT innovation and creative generative platforms, giving him a rare perspective on bringing experiential technologies from prototype to revenue.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Management Information Systems and Services, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Management Information Systems and Services at University at Buffalo School of Management, The State University of New YorkBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at University at BuffaloMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Post Masters in Marketing, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Post Masters in Marketing at University of Dayton
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Github Skills (27)
jetson8
image-recognition8
nvidia8
deploying7
robotics7
caffe7
nvidia-jetson7
edgetpu7
segmentation7
jetson-xavier7
object-detection6
computer-vision6
embedded6
deepstream6
tensorrt6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bcwdesign/BreakThoseBricks
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
Apress/make-a-2d-arcade-game-in-a-weekend
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 day
in-gamearcade-gamegamearcade
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