Summary
John Rachid is a CTO and engineering leader based in Portland, Oregon, with eight years of experience building secure AI, computer vision, and large-scale ML systems. At Inseer he evolved the product from a desktop app to a scalable SaaS platform, led API and AWS infrastructure design, and co-authored patents to protect core IP. He has hands-on expertise in data engineering and model development—from creating a 50,000-image dataset via Reddit to engineering real-time CNN segmentation that cut herbicide use in tests—paired with operational chops in CI/CD, microservices, and logging at scale. John combines hiring and team-building experience with day-to-day engineering leadership, having grown and reorganized teams to speed delivery by multiplex. He is comfortable across the full stack and enjoys turning research prototypes into production-grade, secure systems. Unobvious detail: he built substantial proprietary datasets and tooling early in projects to accelerate ML research-to-product cycles.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Iowa State University