Learn how a data science executive thinks about building scalable data systems at startups.
Paul Dlug
Engineering, strategy, leadership for zero to one builds and complex digital transformations.
I'm co-founder and CEO of Caden AI, building tooling to enable developers to easily build production grade applications that leverage generative AI.
I've been a hands-on engineering leader my whole career, building products from zero to scale, re-architecting and scaling systems, and building the teams around them.
Work
Caden AI - Turn prompts into APIs instantly
https://cadenai.com/Built developer platform for developing, deploying, and optimizing generative AI capabilities from zero to production launch. Leading the product development as CEO and hands-on engineer.
Golden dApp
https://dapp.golden.xyzLed development team for the Golden Protocol and associated dApp. Building a decentralized system for factual verification to power a knowledge graph of all the world's knowledge. Developed anti-gaming techniques, scaling and performance optimizations, and infrastructure.
Scientific journal platform
https://journals.aps.orgDeveloped and led team developing leading scientific journal platform.
Experience
Caden AI
Co-founder and CEO
Jun 2023 - Present
Caden AI transforms prompts into APIs instantly. It’s the fastest way to craft a prompt in code or UI and instantly get an API endpoint without deploying complex tools like LangChain or vector databases.
- Built product from zero to production launch
Golden
Director of Engineering
Dec 2022 - Jun 2023
Building a canonical knowledge graph to map the world's knowledge. Backed by a16z.
- Led team building a crypto token backed protocol for factual verification
- Architected and implemented large scale ETLs for knowledge graph construction
Pager
Director of Product Engineering
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Virtual care platform enabling healthcare organizations to help their members and patients navigate the entire healthcare journey with a personalized, connected care experience.
- Re-architected services to enable scaling from a handful of customers to mass scale multitenant
- Established integrated product and engineering management practices
American Physical Society
Director of Engineering
Mar 2001 - Aug 2022
Non-profit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy and international activities
- Led engineering organization through growth from small team to multiple teams with diverse product lines
- Collaborated on the development of multiple industry standards
- Led digital transformation of scientific journal program
- Established comprehensive engineering practices
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