Meredith Patterson is a veteran CTO and research-minded engineer with 20 years of experience bridging academia and industry to turn cutting-edge language and data research into practical software. She specializes in data mining, NLP, formal language theory and database/engine development, and is fluent in C++ and Python while architecting systems for security, media, fintech and humanitarian finance. She has led technical teams and startups (Osogato, Mautinoa) and run open-source defense projects like Hammer, pairing hands-on implementation with strategic product leadership. Active in the security research community as Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security, she brings a rigorous, formal perspective to real-world problems. Based in Brussels, she blends deep theoretical training (PhD in Computer Science, MA in Linguistics) with a history of shipping production systems for diverse domains.
20 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English (Linguistics), BA, English (Linguistics) at University of Houston
Kingwood High School
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Iowa
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Meredith Patterson - CTO at Special Circumstances LLC