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    Baden Hughes

    Baden Hughes (He/Him)

    CTO, CPO, VP/Director Engineering, VP/Director Product, early stage companies, 100% remote.

    Software Architect United States
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    ArtistVerified
    ArtistVerified
    CPTO (Music Tech/Data) 2022 - Present (almost 4 years)
    Startup CPTO role, collaboratively discovering and defining the product, in response to emergent market dynamics and strategic advice from domain experts. Developed technical... more architecture for the solution and its integration across several primary components: fan-facing mobile app, artist-facing web app, partner platform facing integration, core identity verification, data sourcing. Leading the analysis and selection/integration of music data services from a complex, multi-layered market including platforms in streaming, music analytics, social media, publishing and rights data, creator community, ecommerce. Architecting and implementing notary-style blockchain identity solution for artist and fans. Capturing and formalizing functional and non-functional requirements in forms which allow efficient engagement and evaluation of globally distributed outsourced service providers for design, web, mobile, data, identity, blockchain. Recruiting, hiring and managing in-house engineering staff and contractors to build proofs of concept and the venture’s MVP, also contributing as individual contributor (IC) in backend stack and data/services integration. As a cofounder and executive, representing ArtistVerified in external engagements ranging from strategic to operational, business/finance to technical.
    Nira
    Nira
    Director of Engineering (Content Security) 2021 - 2022 (about 1 year)
    Managed the 25-30 person engineering team in 3-4 squads, distributed across more than 15 countries/timezones, and shared management of the product and operations functions.... more I joined just after a pivot to find product-market fit, and the emphasis has been on making the new product feature complete, eliminating legacy constraints, while maintaining service for existing customers. During this period we planned and delivered a continuous stream of major and incremental feature enhancements to the Nira SaaS product, alongside once-in-a-generation core infrastructure and services replacement for data ingestion and storage. Created many process and systems elements to enable a scalable and high velocity engineering team.
    Mantle Fund
    Mantle Fund
    Incubation CTO (DeFi) 2021 (3 months)
    Solution architect for incubation stage alternative capital raising and asset investment platform (DeFi). Key elements: compliance (KYC/KYB), 2-sided market trading floor,... more enterprise SaaS and fintech integration, transparent but immutable deal ledger (blockchain).
    Stealth Mode
    Stealth Mode
    Consulting CTO, CPO, COO (Startup Advisory) 2021 - Present (about 5 years)
    Lending a hand to various early stage companies create their propositions, design their platforms, validate their markets, raise their funding ... domains: MLOps, FinTech,... more Blockchain, Content AI, IoT and embedded, data API/SaaS, carbon/ESG, content security.
    Online Hate Prevention Institute
    Online Hate Prevention Institute
    Volunteer CTO (Trust & Safety) 2021 (6 months)
    Managing software engineering, designing social media platform integration, automating and scaling harmful online content analysis and running technology operations.
    Cofounder/Director 2012 - 2021 (over 9 years)
    Cofounder/Director of world-leading non-profit combating online hate and working with community, commercial and government partners to improve detection, prevention, mitigation... more and response outcomes.
    Buildings alive
    Buildings alive
    CTO (Climate Tech - Energy Analytics / PropTech) 2016 - 2021 (about 5 years)
    Formed and led product-engineering-operations teams in 3-4 squads working across data engineering, machine learning, customer-facing and internal-facing application development,... more infrastructure/service management in an energy analytics and climate/carbon-tech business serving commercial real estate portfolios on a global scale. Managed a distributed team of research scientists and engineers across a range of building engineering, data science and behavioural science problem spaces using a variety of statistical and machine learning technologies to find insights, bootstrap analytics into production and manage their evolution. Acted as Field CTO in direct engagement with major customers, supporting advisory/consulting services delivery alongside product. Served functionally as the CIO, responsible for selection of and operational management of all internal/corporate systems, information security, business continuity, and vendor/supplier management. Included 18 month period as acting COO, directly managing the customer-facing service delivery team and all associated account and commercial management aspects.
    Cofounder/Director 2012 - 2021 (almost 9 years)
    Cofounder/Director of analytics company focused on commercial real estate energy and environmental performance.
    Cognitiviti
    Cognitiviti
    Founder/Director 2018 - 2022 (about 4 years)
    Founder/Director of machine learning-focused engineering consultancy.
    Principal Engineer (Machine Learning/Compilation) 2018 - 2022 (about 4 years)
    Established and operated a niche AI/ML software/systems engineering consultancy, specializing in machine learning model performance tuning and benchmarking, hardware-software... more co-optimization for machine learning and neuromorphic engineering.
    DocuLife
    DocuLife
    VP Strategic Development (Secure Storage & Sharing) 2016 - 2017 (over 1 year)
    Established multiple operating entities, managed initial funding rounds and investor relations, ensured statutory reporting and compliance, created initial business plans... more and commercial models, provided business/commercial perspective to product-engineering activities.
    GWI
    GWI
    Consulting Director (Management Consulting) 2013 - 2019 (over 6 years)
    Led the business advisory service line, selling / delivering / assuring management consulting engagements in a range of areas including: public sector ICT; law enforcement... more and justice, public safety and emergency management; telecommunications and education. Full P&L responsibility.
    Sensen Networks
    Sensen Networks
    Advisor 2012 - 2013 (4 months)
    Effective Measure
    Effective Measure
    Advisor 2012 (3 months)
    Syl Semantics
    Syl Semantics
    Product/Program Manager (Enterprise Content Management) 2010 - 2012 (over 2 years)
    Technical program manager for technology commercialization phase of a semantic search platform, moving from concept/pilot to product/market.
    Allen Consulting Group
    Allen Consulting Group
    Senior Associate 2008 - 2009 (about 1 year)
    Information domain specialist on a management consulting team responsible for creating a national data strategy for vocational education and training sector, and implementing... more sector-wide change to performance reporting.
    Event Zero
    Event Zero
    VP Technology Strategy and Architecture (Complex Event Processing) 2008 - 2012 (over 4 years)
    Hybrid solutions and integration focused role across market-customer-product-engineering units for a startup building a real time distributed data analytics platform with... more many applications ranging from border security to metropolitan area vehicle tracking to enterprise IT estate management.
    CAVAL Collaborative Solutions
    CAVAL Collaborative Solutions
    Senior Consultant (Information Management) 2006 - 2013 (almost 7 years)
    Management consulting with a focus on information and business management in cultural and collecting domain eg libraries, archives, museums, galleries as well as higher education... more and publishing.
    National ICT Australia (NICTA)
    National ICT Australia (NICTA)
    Research Engineer (Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery) 2004 - 2005 (about 1 year)
    Mixed academic/industrial research in application of language technologies to information retrieval and geospatial analysis problems.
    University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    Enterprise Information Architect and Information Management Program Manager 2006 - 2008 (over 1 year)
    Developed and implemented a range of information-oriented digital transformation initiatives across governance, policy, technology and operations, leveraging information as... more a strategic enterprise asset for a world top 50 higher education institution.
    Research Fellow (Computer Science and Software Engineering) 2003 - 2006 (over 3 years)
    Academic research in natural language processing, digital cultural heritage, information management and libraries, information retrieval, distributed computing, engineering... more education, digital/online learning. Publications from eg https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sEqoXnoAAAAJ&hl=en
    Xtreamlok
    Xtreamlok
    Principal Systems Engineer (Software Security & Licensing) 2002 - 2003 (about 1 year)
    Designed, built and operated secure internet-facing infrastructure for software development teams and customer service delivery of online software licensing and assurance... more solutions at scale.
    WebCentral
    WebCentral
    Network/Systems Operations Manager (ISP & Web Hosting) 2000 - 2002 (almost 2 years)
    End to end 24x7 systems management and project-based delivery of internet systems engineering for a combined internet service provider and web hosting company which underwent... more J-curve growth, a businss spin-off and 2 mergers/acquisition rounds.
    Datec
    Datec
    Senior Systems Engineer (ISP) 2000 (5 months)
    Lead engineer to build an open-source-based end-to-end ISP platform in a box, ship it internationally, and deploy it to migrate from a a legacy/proprietary system.
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    Employee
    Datec, WebCentral, Xtreamlok, University of Melbourne, National ICT Australia (NICTA), CAVAL Collaborative Solutions, Event Zero, Allen Consulting Group, Syl Semantics, GWI, DocuLife, Cognitiviti, Buildings alive, Online Hate Prevention Institute, Stealth Mode, Mantle Fund, Nira, ArtistVerified
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    Effective Measure, Sensen Networks
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    Product Management Business Strategy Engineering Start-Up CTO Customer Success Strategic Partnerships Technology Architecture Software Development Blockchain Technology FinTech innovation Energy and Climate Change Analytics Machine Learning DevOps Engineering Natural Language Processing trust and safety Data Engineering Program Management Music Technology
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    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    Scale by Geoffrey West

    What's your favorite non-business book?

    Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec

    What's your super power?

    Ability to manage and perform high volumes of simultaneous fine grained tasks with long term recall

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