Frank Kuehnel

Experience

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  Quench

  Chief Technology Officer

  Aug 2024 - Present

  Quench empowers healthcare and legal professionals with AI tools to efficiently handle large medical documents, improving case analysis and accuracy.

  • Secured $800k in pre-seed funding by leading technical due diligence and delivering investor presentations, cutting software costs by 50% through vendor licensing negotiations.
  • Developed an LLM-based document analysis pipeline that processes over 10,000 pages in 30 minutes, cutting manual review time by 60%.
  • Achieved SOC 2 Type II readiness and implemented a highly automated AWS infrastructure, leveraging tools like Terraform and Lambda.
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  GoBeyond Group

  Chief Technology Officer - Head of Data Science

  Sep 2023 - Aug 2024

  GoBeyond Group delivers innovative loyalty and rewards technology, enhancing customer and merchant relationships across several international markets.

  • Led the establishment of a new engineering office and a 12-person team, transitioning platform architecture to microservices and improving deployment efficiency by 80%.
  • Built a data science function that developed ML models with 85% accuracy for predictive churn, driving retention strategies and enabling executive insights through AWS QuickSight dashboards.
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  YouTube

  Senior Data Scientist

  Apr 2017 - Jan 2022

  YouTube enables users to upload, share, and view videos, including diverse content like music and educational videos.

  • Led a team to develop personalized recommendation models and frameworks, enhancing YouTube Music's user experience.
  • Engineered ML strategies for subscription acquisition, identifying and targeting high-propensity audiences which boosted subscription rates.
  • Provided data-driven strategic insights and success metrics that informed executive decisions, impacting product strategy significantly.

• Google

  Senior Software Engineer

  Feb 2013 - Apr 2017

  Google creates solutions that bring information and technology together to enhance global access and usability.

  • Introduced advanced hierarchical regression models for Google's advertising platform, achieving a 35% increased ROI.
  • Contributed to open-source projects by developing an R machine learning package capable of analyzing billions of data rows.
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  Glassdoor.com

  Software Architect (Information Retrieval)

  Jun 2011 - Jan 2013

  AppsFlyer provides marketing measurement and analytics tools that help brands improve user engagement and campaign success.

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  NASA Ames Research Center, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc.

  Senior Research Engineer

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2010

  NASA Ames Research Center advances space exploration and aeronautics research through partnerships and technological innovations.

  • Led the architecture of search technologies for NASA's Planetary Data System in collaboration with Google, advancing database search capabilities.
  • Developed comprehensive enterprise search infrastructure using Solr/Lucene, enabling efficient data query and retrieval for planetary research.
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  NASA Ames, Universities Space Research Association

  Senior Research Scientist

  Aug 2000 - Nov 2008

  USRA collaborates with universities to solve space and aeronautics challenges via research and workforce development.

  • Pioneered the development of Lunar WorldWind and other geo-spatial applications to enhance space exploration and research capabilities.
  • Led research and technical development in Bayesian computer vision for machine learning applications in space missions.