Russell Pierce
VP AI Engineering at Computer Visionaries.AI
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Pierce is a VP of AI Engineering with 12 years of experience building production AI, computer vision, and data platforms for enterprise and Fortune 500 clients from Dallas. He combines hands-on architecture and engineering leadership—shipping RAG, document parsing, edge compute, and multi-camera fusion systems—with strategic program and financial oversight, having revitalized and prepared a multi-year, multi-team IP asset for sale. Previously he scaled engineering organizations, drove SOC2 readiness, and quadrupled deployment velocity through pragmatic process and architecture changes. Trained as a cognitive psychologist (PhD), he brings a research-driven lens to applied ML problems, translating human-centered insights into robust, production-ready models and data pipelines. Known for unifying siloed teams, he favors measurable improvements in reliability and delivery over theoretical gains.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology at California State University, Long BeachPhD Cognitive Psychology, PhD Cognitive Psychology at University of California, Riverside
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Github Skills (200)
python10
data-manipulation10
apache-arrow10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
parquet10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
rjava10
r10
data-engineering10
aws-java-sdk10
scheduler10
dplyr10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
russellpierce/repsych
Jul 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 2 months
r-packagepsychologyrstatsreproduciblereproducible-research
zapier/redshiftTools
Jun 2016 - Apr 2021
R Tools to upload data to an Amazon Redshift Database with good performance.
Contributions:2 releases, 11 reviews, 189 commits in 4 years 10 months
amazon-redshiftdatabasedata-science
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