Summary
Thomas Hazel is a seasoned entrepreneur and technical leader with 10+ years designing high-performance distributed, real-time, and database systems and a track record of founding and scaling multiple data-centric companies. As Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Scientist at LatentSpin and former Founder/CTO of ChaosSearch, he built cloud-native search/SQL engines on object storage and pioneered adaptive, ML-driven database architectures. His open-source frameworks and technologies have been widely deployed and acquired, and he pairs product leadership with deep algorithmic expertise from roles at Oracle and earlier embedded systems work. An independent AI researcher, he authored Conceptual Adaptation Theory and the Unified Theory of the Learning Universe, signaling a rare blend of systems engineering and theoretical inquiry. Based in Cambridge, MA, he’s currently “wrangling the data chaos” for his next venture, bringing both practical production experience and novel theoretical perspectives to large-scale data problems.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Ridgefield High School, Connecticut
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of New Hampshire