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.
11 years of coding experience