Summary
John Mancini is a Director of Product Management in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience turning advanced AI research into enterprise SaaS cybersecurity products. He rose through technical and product ranks at Vectra AI from data scientist and lead data scientist to director, inventing patented unsupervised NLP methods and production ML libraries that helped drive new market expansion. With a Ph.D. in computational chemistry, he blends rigorous research, hands-on algorithm engineering (C++, LSTM, random forests) and customer-facing product strategy to close high-value deals. He has a track record of building and mentoring multidisciplinary teams, designing intern programs that produced production algorithms, and defining multi-year data science roadmaps. Notably, he pairs deep scientific publication and presentation experience with practical productization skills—turning Monte Carlo and novel anomaly-detection research into shipping enterprise security features.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Chemistry at Emory University
Bachelor's Degree Chemistry, Bachelor's Degree Chemistry at University of Richmond
High School, High School at Fordham Preperatory