Ross Bates is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with 11 years in senior engineering leadership and over two decades of experience driving large-scale systems. As Co-Founder and CTO of Worlds, he leads development of spatial AI that fuses camera, map, and IoT data to create live digital twins that automate operations and predict outcomes. Previously he co-founded Key Ring, scaling a mobile shopping platform to 15M users and 50M daily API requests, and helped grow ad-tech revenue to $30M prior to acquisition. His background includes architecting high-throughput analytics at AT&T that processed billions of records and delivered real-time insights at 25x speed improvements. Based in Dallas, he blends product-focused engineering with systems-level thinking to turn complex data streams into actionable business value. A pragmatic innovator, he often connects infrastructure optimization with ML-driven personalization to unlock new revenue and efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Management Information Systems, BBA Management Information Systems at The University of Texas at Austin
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