Summary
Richard Everts is a Lead AI Researcher and founder with 11 years of experience building high-performance, real-world AI systems that span edge robotics, autonomy, and multi-agent architectures. At Deep SIML Labs he designs a cognitive operating system for embodied agents grounded in the Free Energy Principle and has shipped a bitwise Rust + GPU-accelerated substrate that halved planning error while doubling latency and energy efficiency. His background ranges from leading AI strategy and patented R&D at startups (CTO/co-founder of Bestie Bot) to enterprise and government engagements with Intel and HP, combining systems-level engineering in Rust and Python with GPU optimization, ONNX/TensorRT deployment, and computer vision. He’s also an active community builder and educator—organizing regional AI meetups and teaching reinforcement learning projects like AlphaGo Zero from scratch—bringing both research rigor and product-focused pragmatism to applied AI.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College
Certificate Robotics Software Engineering Nanodegree, Certificate Robotics Software Engineering Nanodegree at Udacity
Continuing Education Artificial Intelligence, Continuing Education Artificial Intelligence at Datacamp
Continuing Education Design and Visual Communications General, Continuing Education Design and Visual Communications General at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design
Web and Mobile Development User Experience, Web and Mobile Development User Experience at Noble Desktop
HS, HS at St. Andrew's School
Continuing Education Design and Visual Communications General, Continuing Education Design and Visual Communications General at FXPhD
Regular Old Book Study
Web and AI Development, Web and AI Development at Codeschool, Codecademy& Pluralsight
Rails Stripe Payment Processing Growth Hacking Content Marketing, Rails Stripe Payment Processing Growth Hacking Content Marketing at One Month