Tim Sears
Spring Hill, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Sears is a Chief AI Officer and seasoned AI/ML leader with 14+ years delivering production machine learning and engineering programs across retail, finance, and startups. He built and led Target’s Data Science & Engineering organization, translating complex data into customer-facing product impact, and earlier applied quantitative finance rigor as a Wall Street quant and executive. Tim blends a PhD in machine learning with an MS in economics and finance, enabling him to bridge deep technical work—functional programming, computer vision, and model deployment—with strategic business outcomes. He has led and advised technical teams at Groq, HTEC, and several AI startups, pairing hands-on engineering leadership with product thinking for enterprise adoption. An entrepreneur at heart (founder of Pingwell) who has operated globally, he’s known for turning research-grade methods into scalable, business-aligned systems. Based in Palo Alto, he now focuses on technical and strategic AI advisory, uniquely combining academic depth with operator and board-level experience.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Business/Corporate Communications, 4.0, Business/Corporate Communications, 4.0 at Columbia State College
Github Skills (57)
nix10
nixos10
linux10
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sampler9
pyzmq8
functional-programming7
pattern7
darwin7
servant7
ghc7
hackage7
cabal7
package-manager6
python6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
timsears/fizzbuzz
Jun 2016 - Apr 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
timsears/easyVision
Feb 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 7 months
visionhaskellrecognitioncomputer-visionimage-processing
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