Michael Platzer
Co-Founder & CTO at MOSTLY AI
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolMichael Platzer is a founder and technical leader with 12+ years in data science and productizing synthetic data, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of MOSTLY AI in Vienna. He moved from hands-on senior data science roles at Nokia and Microsoft into entrepreneurship, previously splitting CEO and CTO duties while scaling MOSTLY AI since 2017. His background combines applied mathematics and business (MS degrees) with PhD-level marketing science research, giving him a rare mix of rigorous modeling, commercial insight, and go-to-market experience. Michael focuses on making "Data for ALL" practical—turning privacy-preserving synthetic data into usable assets for analytics and ML at enterprise scale. He has deep experience in sales and operations planning analytics and customer & market research, which informs product decisions and real-world evaluation of synthetic data. Based in Vienna, he blends academic depth with startup grit and long-term CTO experience dating back to an earlier media-tech venture he co-founded in the late 1990s.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (MS) Applied Mathematics at Technical University of ViennaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Marketing Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Marketing Science at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)University of California, Irvine
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
python10
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sec10
data-science10
data-manipulation10
dataframes10
pandas10
crm10
machine-learning10
economics10
manipulation10
deep-learning10
differential-privacy10
gpu10
generative-ai10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mostly-ai/paper-fidelity-accuracy
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
public repo for paper on fidelity / privacy assessment of mixed-type synthetic data
Contributions:4 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
mostly-ai/mostlyai-qa
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Synthetic Data Quality Assurance 🔎
Contributions:10 releases, 16 reviews, 124 PRs in 4 months
synthetic-datasynthetic-data-quality
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