Brian (The Robot) Carlson

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President & Lead Architect

TacoAI

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  • Architected and developed text and voice based NLU chatbot systems for customer service operations. Built systems for onboarding new users on Avant Garde Trading’s brokerage platform.
  • Architected and developed AI/ML systems for various back-office automation tasks for the Prosperum Financial Holdings ecosystem of products and subsidiaries.
  • Architected and developed Avant Garde Trading’s new stock and options trading platform including integrations for chatbot systems, automated trading, trade assisting tools, and trade analytics.
  • Interviewed, hired, and managed developers in building out systems with regular stand-ups and weekly demos to external stakeholders.
  • Architected and developed ETL pipelines for financial and account data for building AI-based trade recommendation systems.
  • Developed proprietary natural language chatbot systems with realistic voice synthesis for onboarding and customer service tasks.
  • Pentested brokerage systems previously developed by external team, finding serious security flaws. Took over development of these systems, removing these security flaws and secured the system against similar attacks.