Summary
Kevin Ashley is an entrepreneur and AI leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native AI products and developer ecosystems. He founded AI Coaching (partnered with the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee) and previously led generative AI strategy and adoption as a Google Generative AI Blackbelt after a multi-year senior engineering and CTO-focused tenure at Microsoft. Kevin combines deep technical chops across Vertex AI, multimodal models, cloud architecture and IoT/sensor systems with a track record of shipping high-scale consumer and sports platforms used by millions. He is also a prolific author on applied ML and AI in sports, health and creative domains, translating research into practical products and training. Comfortable moving between startup founding, enterprise AI programs and technical evangelism, he uniquely blends product instincts with low-level engineering expertise. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs an MS in computational/applied mathematics and an MBA in finance to bridge rigorous modeling with business impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance, MBA Finance at University of Connecticut School of Business
Master of Science - MS Computational and Applied Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Computational and Applied Mathematics at NSU
English, French, Russian