Michelle Bonat is a strategic technology and AI leader with 11+ years of experience building production AI, data and product organizations across startups, fintech and enterprise; she’s currently Chief Technology, Product and AI Officer at Golden Pear Funding and an active angel investor and AI consultant. With an MBA from Kellogg and a track record as CAIO/CTO at AI Squared and AI leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase, she has shipped hundreds of AI/ML products—holding patents and scaling capabilities across 90 products and 1.5 billion monthly logins. She founded a fintech that produced 100M+ automated ESG investing insights and has led global financial web application teams at Oracle and product efforts at multiple acquired companies. Known for bridging research-grade ML with production SaaS delivery, she combines deep technical fluency in ML, LLMs and software engineering with product and go-to-market savvy. Outside of work she mentors underrepresented technologists and advances community resilience in food security and climate action.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated from this idea stage accelerator program - Silicon Valley, Graduated from this idea stage accelerator program - Silicon Valley at Founder Institute
Full stack web development school & apprenticeship, Full stack web development school & apprenticeship at Bloc
Data Science, Data Science at Springboard
Six Thirty FinTech Accelerator
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Northwestern University
This is my (old) personal website. I built it in Ruby on Rails with Haml and other tools. Includes: portfolio section, resume, speaking, and blog with the most recent blog post on the home page. It's open source feel free to fork it.
Contributions:550 commits, 225 PRs, 345 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions:29 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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