Summary
Michael Palmer is a seasoned technology founder and executive with 10+ years leading large-scale AI, data and cloud-native transformations across finance and media. As CEO of Taos Research and former CTO and Head of AI/ML at U.S. Bank, he blends deep technical command of ML platforms, streaming and cloud infrastructure with product-led strategy and open source advocacy. He has built and shipped systems that power exabyte-scale analytics, production model inferencing, and award-winning consumer banking experiences, while advising boards on AI strategy. Comfortable moving between research, architecture and general management, he repeatedly turns complex dynamical problems into practical, production-ready platforms. Unusually, his career spans early consumer mobile product innovation (Sidekick) to modern AI systems, giving him a rare perspective on product-market fit for advanced technologies.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business, MBA Business at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Masters of Science in Engineering CS EE ME, Masters of Science in Engineering CS EE ME at Stanford University School of Engineering
BS Economics Physics Math, BS Economics Physics Math at Haverford College
Spanish, German, Chinese, French