Thomas Watson
CTO Chief AI Officer at Healiom
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Watson is a seasoned AI and technology leader with 12 years of experience building production AI systems and scaling engineering teams across time zones. As CTO and Chief AI Officer at Healiom, he is architecting an agentic-first Autonomous Health Record platform and shipping HIPAA-compliant, multimodal products—from a consumer meal-photo nutrition app to a spec-driven agent framework that generated 300+ AI-drafted specs. He has led large research and engineering organizations at AstraZeneca and Deloitte, combining governance, assurance, and biotech-grade compliance with practical model optimization across Claude, GPT, and Gemini. Thomas blends hands-on system design (Kafka, Redis, blue-green deployments) with strategic cloud and hybrid compute decisions made previously for hyperscale biopharma platforms. He is pragmatic about risk and regulation—applying STPA and fraud-detection techniques to generative AI—and is known for turning cutting-edge research into auditable, production-ready healthcare solutions.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Grand Valley State University
Github Skills (78)
python10
deep-learning10
dependency-free10
ai10
lightning10
artificial-intelligence10
pytorch10
utilities10
lifecycle10
machine-learning10
scaling10
lodash10
javascript9
enums9
modularity9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DrClick/FamousBird
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:134 commits in 1 month
DrClick/ARCRacing
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:98 commits, 73 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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