Shawn Rutledge is an accomplished machine learning practitioner and innovator with decades of experience building solutions across diverse verticals such as financial services, e-commerce, and social media. He has served as a technology executive at top brands (IBM, Expedia, Nordstrom) and has been a principal contributor, leader, and/or advisor to more than a dozen Seattle area startups. Shawn holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, has completed graduate coursework in Statistics at Stanford, and has been granted ten patents.