Jon Dorando
Chief Technology Officer at Boosted.ai
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Dorando is a CTO with nine years of leadership experience who combines deep academic training in theoretical chemistry (PhD, Cornell) with a decade-plus of applied ML and engineering at Bloomberg and Boosted.ai. He leads technical strategy and execution for AI-driven portfolio management products, translating advanced quantitative methods into accessible, no-code tools for finance. His background in parallel C++ implementations for quantum chemistry and production ML for search and personalization gives him uncommon fluency across research, high-performance systems, and product-grade machine learning. Based in the NYC area, he partners closely with business and research teams to solve domain-specific problems in financial engineering, prioritizing practical impact over purely technical novelty. An interesting through-line in his career is turning mathematically sophisticated models into scalable, user-friendly systems that democratize complex decision-making.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical Chemistry at Cornell UniversityBachelor's degree Chemical Physics, Bachelor's degree Chemical Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (4)
solr7
lucene6
java4
apache2
Github contributions (3)
jdorando/lucene-solr
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:51 pushes, 58 branches in 2 months
solrapachelucenejavaapache-lucene
GBI-Core/kube-prometheus
Mar 2026 - Mar 2026
Use Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes and applications running on Kubernetes
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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