Niraj Swami
Conservation Technology Strategy & Enablement
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolNiraj Swami is a conservation technology strategist and founder with 10+ years of experience designing AI-enabled systems that strengthen human judgment, resilience, and decision-making across conservation, healthcare, and education. At The Nature Conservancy he leads applied AI and emerging-technology strategy to scale mission delivery while managing systemic risk, and co-leads Techstars sustainability partnerships to bridge startups and conservation practice. As a venture-studio founder he builds reflection-first learning platforms and behavioral-economics tools that capture millions of practitioner insights to improve workforce adaptability and clinical reasoning. His work blends hands-on product and AI experience (founder of SCAD-AI and CEO of Adaptrack) with an MBA from Chicago Booth, enabling practical, risk-aware innovation at both the first and last mile. Notably, he translates research-grade models into field-ready tools that preserve human judgement as the primary layer of value. Based in Chicago, he pairs systems thinking with a track record of launching category-defining ventures and cross-sector partnerships.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Strategy, Economics, Entrepreneurship (w/ Honors), Master of Business Administration - MBA, Strategy, Economics, Entrepreneurship (w/ Honors) at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessCertificate, Music Production, Certificate, Music Production at Berklee College of MusicBachelor of Science, Computer Engineering (Software), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering (Software), Mathematics at Marquette University
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Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fivesquared/H2O
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
fivesquared/Mya
Sep 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 branch, 2 comments, 28 issues in 3 years 5 months
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