Steve Karam
Product Assurance at I'll Go Too (501c3)
Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Karam is a product assurance and AI strategy leader with 12+ years of experience helping Fortune 50 banks, healthcare systems, and government agencies deploy privacy-first AI and on-premise LLMs that meet GDPR, AI Act, HIPAA/HITRUST and FedRAMP requirements. Currently leading AI product strategy and secure data privacy capabilities, he has delivered air-gapped embedded LLMs, Azure Data Factory/Fabric compliance extensions, and synthetic data pipelines that pass the strictest audits. Steve blends hands-on technical depth in fine-tuning, synthetic data, deterministic masking, and data engineering with product leadership across SaaS, growth, and enablement. He started building NLP for the US Navy at 16 and founded a nonprofit that provides educational opportunities for young people with cerebral palsy, reflecting both early technical curiosity and long-standing social commitment. Based in Chesapeake, VA, he’s a frequent speaker on embedded AI for compliance and writes The Why AI newsletter for 5K+ subscribers.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Old Dominion University
Stackoverflow
31reputation
796reached
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Github Skills (8)
cryptography9
ethereum9
crypto9
cryptocurrency9
pug6
nodejs6
javascript6
jquery6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oraclealchemist/bashtfidf
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 19 days
oraclealchemist/test-dapp
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
The sample dapp used for e2e testing and metamask-extension QA
Contributions:18 pushes in 11 days
reactdappethereumtestingweb3
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