Lynn MonsonAI product design · AI/ML architecture · Hands-on systems builder

The record.

Four decades of product development, software architecture, and hands-on engineering. Production machine learning since 2000.

  1. 2023–26

    ElizaChat — co-founder, Head of AI

  2. 2022–23

    Lucid Software — principal engineer, ML

  3. 2022

    Aktify — principal ML engineer

  4. 2017–22

    Proofpoint — Senior Director of Data Science Engineering; built and led the ML engineering organization

    Under his leadership our ML team’s profile grew from zero to extremely well respected for our impact and execution.Kevin Blissett, who reported to me · 2022
  5. 2013–

    ProHakr — principal; consulting

  6. 2013–14

    youwho — chief architect; ML on AWS

  7. 2011–13

    Domo — chief architect at launch; multi-tenant SaaS

    Lynn has the invaluable ability to know when an architectural issue is important and when it can be ignored. As simple as that may sound it is a rare quality, and it resulted in significant ROI for Domo.Lee Jensen, who reported to me · 2014
  8. 2010–11

    Ancestry.com — CTO office; cloud, database scaling, disaster recovery

  9. 2003–10

    FamilySearch — lead architect; a platform serving 4,600 centers in 132 countries

  10. 2007
    If I were starting a company or seeking technical leadership on a project, Lynn would be one of the top two or three people I’d pursue.Mike Jones, associate professor of computer science at BYU · 2007
  11. 2002–04

    NextPage — architect, new product team

  12. 2000–03

    Apache Xerces — committer

  13. 1999–02

    Whizbang Labs — one of two architects; FlipDog, an ML-built job board acquired by Monster.com

  14. 1989–99

    Novell / WordPerfect — led the groupware teams from design through shipping, and went on-site when a large customer’s deployment went wrong; TrueType engine with Microsoft, ported to OS/2; OLE/COM review team; supervised the company’s delegates to IETF and W3C. Engineer of the Year.

  15. 1986–89

    Wicat Systems — designed a reusable simulation engine for aircraft-maintenance simulators

  16. 1982–84

    Freelance — compilers, real-time control, games

Three patents. BYU, computer science and mathematics, summa cum laude. Trained in Contextual Design.