Neil Smith
Founder at Next Arc Research
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Smith is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of hands-on experience building applied AI/ML and NLP products, from enterprise sales assistants to consumer-connected toys and mass-audience engagement platforms. Equally at ease in CxO strategy sessions and shipping code, he has led engineering teams at startups and Google’s Area 120, where he translated state-of-the-art semantic language models into pragmatic enterprise offerings. As Databook’s former CTO he architected DatabookGPT to surface strategic insights for sales teams, and today runs Next Arc Research to publish forward-looking AI research for practitioners. His background spans embedded systems, web and mobile platforms, and data-driven automation, and he’s known for rebuilding teams and turning messy real-world data into deployable ML pipelines. Based in Palo Alto with an MBA from IMD and a BSc in Computer Science, he combines entrepreneurial instinct with deep technical breadth and a knack for anticipating market-defining technology shifts.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at University of Kent at Canterbury, UKCSecondary, Secondary at Alleyns College of God's Gift, Dulwich, UKMBA Business, MBA Business at IMD
French
Github Skills (4)
plugin9
simulation5
game-engine2
mvs2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IVCenter/calvr_plugins
Sep 2012 - Dec 2013
CalVR Plugins
Contributions:40 commits in 1 year 2 months
plugin
IVUL-KAUST/UAVSimUE4
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Simulation tool for UAVs based on the UE4 game engine.
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 comments in 1 month
game-enginesimulation
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