Ola Ai

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Cofounder

On Deck

Fellowship

AI Forum

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Angel Club

Still learning. 

Current investments:
- Mailtrack https://www.mailtrack.io/
- Hireflix https://www.hireflix.com/
- Housers http://www.housers.com/
- Cabify http://www.cabify.com/
- Goin https://goin.one/
- Kasitoko https://kasitoko.com/
- Chicisimo https://chicisimo.com/
- Badi https://badi.com/
- Kasaz https://www.kasaz.com/
- BNext https://www.bnext.es/
- Lobster https://projectlobster.com/
- Seis https://www.seis.com

Angel Investor

Maestro

One of my biggest passions is helping others fast-forward their lives through Mentoring. Maestro is an exploratory project around how to make Mentoring accessible to anyone, no matter where you live or who you know. 

Key Milestones:
- Create a react native app for testing group interactions via short-form video
- Create filters for empowering conversations
- Start an online course (Day One) for helping first time tech founders achieve product market fit

Co-Founder and CEO (merged at Circles)

thesidewaysproject

Sideways is building the first fully autonomous wheelchair in the world. The applications are endless, from improving the internal operations in B2B spaces like hospitals, airports, shopping centers, up to changing the way we perceive an obsolete industry.

Key Achievements:
- Help the team with the go-to-market strategy, pivoting twice until finding product-market fit
- Create multiple minimum viable products for validating the business models and value proposition
- Help on the transition: Define a technical roadmap around the selected niche and implemented a pipeline for hiring a full-time CTO

Interim Chief Technology Officer

First autonomous wheelchair in the world.

Advisory

Tradecraft

Helped the team design, build and create internal tools for growth

Core Team

What is Tradecraft? The fastest way to break into the startup community. Collaborations:
- Astro App (Acquired by Slack) - deep user identification through data analysis
- YogiApproved (Top Yoga Website) - improved funnel conversion by onboarding redesign, product and content strategy

Student

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc.

I am responsible for artificial intelligence R&D projects in the organization.
- Define the product strategy and roadmaps
- Develop, manage and lead high-profile tech teams around these projects
- Understand potential customer needs and translate them into beautiful products 

Current technologies: artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, natural language understanding, natural language generation

Head of Innovation Labs (Artificial Intelligence / Data Science)

I develop secret projects in a secret Lab.

Product Manager

DISCOPERI Inc.

Discoperi mission is to save lives avoiding accidents through a connected car blockchain network. Their first product, System-eye is a sophisticated system aimed at increasing road safety, through connecting vehicles by leveraging:

- internet-of-things for cars
- big data analytics
- artificial intelligence
- blockchain

http://discoperi.com/

THECUBE Madrid

MIOTI (Madrid Institute of Internet of Things) Data Science teacher. 
The youngest in the class.

Professor

🎥 Building CIRCLES - Short videos for professionals | exHyperloop & angel investor

💡 This about page was generated by ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model.

🚀 Hi, I'm Manu Rueda, an AI expert and startup enthusiast. I specialize in developing AI solutions for various industries, with a focus on healthcare, finance and retail. My skills include machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. I am always seeking new challenges and opportunities to grow in my field.

🔍 I am also highly focused on LinkedIn SEO, and I am always looking for ways to optimize my profile to become a top profile in AI and startups on LinkedIn. I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and connecting with others in the AI and startup community.

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Manu Rueda

Large Asian Enterprise

Senior Platform Engineer

Dubai Government

Liked the Dubai locals but left to work 100% Remote as a digital nomad and enjoy the travel lifestyle.
After years of "golden handcuffs" working on-site in London, it just isn't worth it any more.

OnBuy

Short high-intensity Production GCP migration project to fill the gap before I emigrated from the UK.

Built their Kubernetes gitlab repo from scratch, including ArgoCD and Jenkins-on-Kubernetes both integrated with Google auth, Cloudflare, automatic SSL for Kubernetes apps, SolrCloud cluster deployments and Load Balancing

Cloud DevOps Engineer

First Mode

• IoT Project for green energy - AWS Cloud + On-Premise
• AWS, Kubernetes, Rancher, Terraform, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, DevOps, Linux Virtualization & Containerization

https://github.com/HariSekhon/Diagrams-as-Code
https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Bash-tools
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Kubernetes-configs
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Terraform
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Jenkins
https://github.com/HariSekhon/GitHub-Actions
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Packer-templates
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Vagrant-templates

Lead Cloud DevOps & On-premise Engineer

Anglo American

• Built AWS environment from greenfield
• AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, DevOps

https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Bash-tools
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Kubernetes-configs
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Terraform
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Jenkins
https://github.com/HariSekhon/GitHub-Actions

Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer

Unbiased

• Delivered production re-platform to Kubernetes on GCP
• GCP, GKE, Terraform, CI/CD, Jenkins, DevOps

https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Bash-tools
https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Python-tools
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Kubernetes-configs
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Terraform
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Jenkins
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Diagrams-as-Code

Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Sainsbury's

• AWS, Cloudera, Snowflake
• ended due to Sainsbury's going blanket Inside IR35

Solution Architect (Contract)

G-Research

• Big Data, Kubernetes, Hadoop, HBase, OpenTSDB, Kafka, Python, DevOps
• Performance tuning (JVM, HBase, OpenTSDB)
• High-security hedge fund

Big Data Consultant (Contract)

BNP Paribas

• My 2nd gig at Europe's biggest bank as the lead big data architect
• Spark, Apache Drill, Kafka, Hadoop, Docker, Python, DevOps

Lead Big Data Solution Architect (Contract)

Novozymes

• Consulted for the leading Biotech company in the field of enzymes (spun out from the pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk)
• Presto, Python, Airflow, Hadoop, Docker, DevOps
• liked this gig but needed to return home to the UK to focus on my personal life

https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Python-tools
https://github.com/HariSekhon/Dockerfiles

The only thing I love more than Tech is babies.

Published thousands of programs / scripts to GitHub for Cloud, DevOps, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, NoSQL, Big Data, Spark, Hadoop, Linux, Web, CI/CD, APIs, plus hundreds of CI builds & DockerHub images

Led teams of senior engineers since the 2000s, right hand to CTOs, End-to-end Consultant internationally for much of the 2010s

20+ years of heavily technical work history, AWS Engineer since 2012, Hadoop & NoSQL Engineer since 2009, Pythonista since 2005, Linux Systems Engineer since 2003. SME across a vast array of technologies in the last 2 decades, see my GitHub which is Top 0.01%:

https://github.com/HariSekhon

★ RECRUITERS - Please don't call, it interrupts work - send a LinkedIn message with the following details:

★ RECRUITER CHECKLIST - Send details below up front (will be kept strictly confidential) ★

• Company Name
• Tech spec (Cloud focused, preferably multi-cloud)
• Salary / Contract Rate
• Remote status - Work-From-Any-Country?
• No Hybrid / On-Site - you'd have to more than double my salary to become tax resident in decaying high-tax socialist western democracies
• Already experienced consulting on-site around Europe, US, South Africa and Dubai
• IR35 Status for UK contracts (for me to pass jobs to ex-colleagues)
• No Consultancies - invariably the worst all around
• Interview process (timings, format, number of interviews - should be 1-2 rounds max)
• my extensive GitHub portfolio should far surpass the need for technical tests
• British Citizen (born Londoner)

Perm has Extra Requirements:

• Prefer Startups / Tech / AI /  Crypto / Web3 / Internet / Challenger Banks / Social Media companies - casual fast-paced tech-focused environments. Old financials are contract-only
• Using my own elite Mac (I’m not lugging a corporate brick around the world)
• Hard Engineering - Coding & Cloud Infrastructure
• No Legacy Tech - Hadoop, Cloudera, Puppet etc.
• Hands-on technology-focused (few meetings)
• Working with highly experienced peers (coders)
• Merit over "Culture" - who wants to work in a Cult. No DEI (reverse discrimination) please.
• Focus on Expertise & Excellence

Perm should be high-end engineering or leadership roles, eg:
 
• Principal Engineer / DevOps / SRE
• Chief Architect
• Startup CTO
• Head of Engineering
• Head of Cloud
• Head of Data
• Head of DevOps
• Head of Platform

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