John Van Vranken

Greater Boston Area

ad25pp@r.postjobfree.com

207-***-****

Senior Technology Leader, MBA, Master’s in AI for Healthcare Software leader experienced as a director, manager, and individual contributor with 20 years of experience building global software companies and solutions. A combination of hands-on software development, machine learning, program management, international business, and engineering leadership, well poised to maximize data- driven opportunities to create new products, reach new markets, and achieve scalable efficiencies. Skills

Software engineering, APIs, Machine Learning, cloud architecture, PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Python, Flask, GCP, AWS, Linux, Apache, microservices with Kafka, DDD, hexagonal arch, Nginx, Docker, leadership, mentorship Experience

SENIOR SOFTWARE + ML ENGINEER, CANOE INTELLIGENCE — FEB 2023 TO PRESENT

• Architected and led the transition from monolith to SOA for Machine Learning, building Python Flask microservices with Domain Driven Design, Hexagonal Architecture, and Kafka.

• Lead Machine Learning initiatives to build insights for our top-tier Wall Street clients including JP Morgan, State Street, and Blackstone by fine-tuning NLP models with BERT Transformers for prediction on over 8 million financial documents for alternative assets.

• Created the ecosystem to simultaneously compare multiple competing machine learning models to facilitate comparison, experimentation, monitoring, and serving the most performant. DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, NUCLEUS HEALTHCARE — SEP 2021 TO JUL 2022

• Grew a startup software development team from 2 to 12 engineers for Shoutout, a SaaS social and clinical telehealth application seeded by an established behavioral health company.

• Established automated testing protocols, coding standards, and domain-driven design architecture that resulted in an 80% reduction of bugs and fostered a culture of shared expectations and standardization.

• Improved search result relevancy and filtering by migrating from Algolia to Elasticsearch (OpenSearch) which addressed all support tickets related to search relevancy and functionality.

• Monetized the application by architecting and building the billing API microservice using Stripe, Laravel, and Domain Driven Design, resulting in the organization's first income streams from digital services. FOUNDER, PRICEX — JAN 2019 TO DEC 2022

• Founded and architected PriceX - the 1st price comparison shopping tool with real-time Text alerts, multi- lingual support, and service in Europe and North America spanning 8 countries, 4 languages, and 4 currencies.

• Enforced data integrity by extracting real-time data with 32 proxy web crawlers using Python, XPath, and Scrapy that monitored price changes in less than 15 minutes, eclipsing the industry standard of 24 hours.

• Developed the international business strategy, GDPR and CCPA data privacy policies, and global compliance by collaborating with legal councils in the US and Germany to develop automated privacy controls. VP OF ENGINEERING, GOSALE.COM — DEC 2016 TO AUG 2018

• Created a centralized API to pivot the business strategy to a hub-and-spoke model that facilitated 5 new SaaS products, enabling the discovery of a product that increased the average customer lifetime value by 400%.

• Increased a core KPI by 1800% by removing a human-decision bottleneck with a series of Machine Learning models that leveraged supervised classification on 10 years of data with Python and Scikit-Learn. The machine learning algorithm eclipsed 10 years of human productivity in a single day.

• Represented and advocated for the organization and provided data and evidentiary documentation to the Federal Trade Commission task force on Antitrust in Technology. PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, GOSALE.COM — SEPT 2003 TO DEC 2016

• Increased revenue from $0 to $21 million with $9 million in profits and $800k annual profits per employee.

• Led a startup from Day 0 to Year 15 by utilizing Lean Software Development principles, efficient LAMP stack, and incorporated business clients and online consumers into the feedback loop.

• Grew daily users by 100x by building a first-of-its-kind automated marketing campaign that updated ad copy and CPC in real-time using heuristic algorithms to maximize ROI across 3 major advertising platforms.

• Managed key relationships with hundreds of partners such as Amazon, eBay, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Jet.com, Walmart, and Best Buy becoming one of the top 20 worldwide partners for Amazon and eBay. Education

• Masters in Applied Machine Intelligence, AI for Healthcare - Northeastern University, May 2024 GPA: 3.9

Unsupervised DBScan Clustering of Cardiac patients using time-series EKG, Cardiac MRI, and Isochronal LAT Cardiac Map imaging features to detect subpopulations within patients diagnosed with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia / Cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C). Android Malware Detection with Big Data and Spark

Skin Cancer Image Classification Flask microservice deployed in a live app using Deep Neural Networks that allows users to upload images from their phone and determine if the lesion is cancerous and which type of cancer was detected.

Unsupervised Campaign Contribution and Demographic Clustering & its Influence on Elections using DBSCAN, t-SNE, AHC, and PCA and semi-supervised prediction of election outcomes with deep learning neural network based on contribution clustering and demographic information. Automated Risk Modeling driven by feature engineering, NLP, NER, and BERT Transformers Legal document security clearance and subject classification using HuggingFace pre-trained model, fine- tuned with labeled legal documents for semantic understanding and transfer learning.

• Masters in Business Administration, MBA - Prague, Czech Republic, DePaul University, 2009 1st Place, Capstone competition; 97th percentile worldwide

• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - University of Vermont, 2002 Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society for the Computer & Information Disciplines NCAA Cycling National Championships, Road: 13th, Mountain 12th, Team: 5th

• Television / Radio Production, Business - Ithaca College (Transferred 1999) Certificates

• Certificate in Machine Learning, Stanford University (remote) - 2018

• Google Cloud Platform: Core Infrastructure & Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine - 2019 Accolades

Frederick Lipp, Bernstein Shur, Co-Chair Business Industry Group & Managing Director of Bernstein Shur World Stage Advisors, former advisor to Maine Governor Angus King:

"John, your PriceX is one of the most interesting, promising, and gutsy business ideas I have ever been associated with."