Zane Denmon
Chief Technology Officer at FortiFly.ai
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZane Denmon is a technology leader and AI practitioner with a decade of experience building applied machine learning and multi-domain data fusion systems, now serving as Chief Technology Officer at FortiFly.ai. He blends a strong academic foundation—M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern and a B.S. in Computer Science from Pitt—with hands-on roles across defense-focused autonomy and simulation at ThayerMahan and production engineering at Battelle. Zane specializes in compacting disparate data sources into human-interpretable, actionable representations to help stakeholders understand AI’s strengths and limitations. His career trajectory shows rapid progression from research and co-op roles to leadership in AI strategy and implementation, reflecting both technical depth and operational impact. Based in Chicago, he pairs domain expertise in unmanned systems with practical software engineering experience across startups and government-contracted environments.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Lake-Lehman Junior/Senior High SchoolMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (49)
simulator10
unreal10
control-systems10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
airsim10
platform-independent10
artificial-intelligence9
robotics9
simulation9
computer-vision9
jupyter-notebook8
cross-platform8
drones8
autonomous-vehicles8
representations8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ascourtas/visual-navigation-ai2thor
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Target-driven Visual Navigation in Indoor Scenes using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Contributions:44 commits, 7 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 month
visual-navigationdeep-learningreinforcement-learningdeep-reinforcement-learningscenes
denmonz/Hungry-For-What
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 69 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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