Stephen Karafiath
Senior Vice President Of AI Solutions Architecture at BizForesight
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolStephen Karafiath is a seasoned AI and solutions architecture leader with over two decades of experience turning enterprise-scale AI, big data, and DevOps strategies into practical business outcomes. As Senior VP of AI Solutions Architecture at Talbot West and former head of Oracle’s Developer Innovations Team, he has led large engineering organizations and advised Fortune 500 firms on optimizing processes and deploying mission-critical systems. He now focuses on bringing enterprise-grade, explainable, and secure AI—embodied in his Cognitive Hive AI (CHAI) modular framework—to mid-market companies to drive measurable ROI and organizational intelligence. Stephen blends deep technical fluency in LLMs, ML, cloud infrastructure, and multiple programming languages with a rare emphasis on traceability, governance, and workforce enablement. Known for separating AI hype from value, he designs incremental, high-impact deployments that embed intelligence into familiar workflows rather than forcing disruptive rip-and-replace projects. Based in Salt Lake City, he also channels M&A domain insights into productization efforts like BizForesight, marrying deal data and advisory expertise with ensemble AI architectures.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science - Focus on Neural Networks, Computer Science - Focus on Neural Networks at University of Maryland
Github Skills (3)
oracle-database8
oracle7
email-templates2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pcdavies/CloudNativeMicroservicesDevOps
Oct 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 years 3 months
skarafia/learning-library
May 2019 - May 2019
Learning Material for Oracle Technologies
Contributions:5 pushes in 10 days
oracleplsqltechnologiesoracle-database
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