Joel Teply is a seasoned founder and CTO with two decades in software engineering, specializing in mobile and web systems that blend high-speed computer vision, deep learning, and real-time optimization. As co-founder of Cambrian he shifted from CEO to CTO to drive algorithmic advances—his semantic segmentation and lightweight neural networks now run on millions of mobile devices and power AR, IoT, and drone applications at scale. He has led end-to-end productization of proprietary AR and biometric platforms, holds nine patents, and contributed core computer-vision work used in a successful exit to Ant Financial. Comfortable in low-level C++/SIMD architectures and GPU-accelerated pipelines, he combines research rigor (CNNs for autonomous-style perception) with pragmatic engineering that ships to Fortune 500 customers. Based in Kansas City, he’s as likely to be optimizing a real-time mobile inference engine as pitching novel AR experiences to enterprise partners.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at University of Kansas
A flexible transformer system that loads existing models, prunes redundant attention heads, and regrows them using ANN controllers and skip connections — enabling efficient training, inference, and compression-aware optimization.
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