Kevin Raison is an AI researcher, systems engineer, and founder with over three decades of experience building autonomous systems, self-healing operating environments, and large-scale infrastructure for clients including DARPA, NASA, ARL and early-stage web startups. As principal of Chatsubo Labs he bridges deep research in affective computing, NLP and multi-agent planning with hands-on software and infrastructure work spanning ANSI Common Lisp, Prolog, Erlang, Python and C. He has led product and platform technical teams as CTO and founder, contributed to DARPA challenges and academic conferences, and maintains open-source projects such as a graph database and a Lisp-based NLP library. Based in Mykolaiv but with a global consulting footprint, he blends research rigor with practical delivery—able to move a concept from paper to deployed, resilient system. An eclectic entrepreneur, he also co-owns a brick-and-mortar comic shop, reflecting a longtime habit of turning niche passions into sustainable ventures.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Master of Science at DePaul University
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at University of Illinois
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Kevin Raison - Advisory Board Member & Field Operative