CTO at Vantel. Ex-Microsoft software engineer, who has founded several startups, and 900+ research citations within NLP. Machine learning PhD dropout and first-principles thinker. Pursued parallel studies in Engineering Physics at Sweden's top Engineering School and Business School (KTH & SSE). Graduate studies at the University of Washington, including co-authoring one of the most cited information extraction papers of 2019. Also built conversational agents with Amazon Alexa.