Adam Tzagournis, CPA

Stealth AI Startup

Founder

FlowCog

Business finance simplified. FlowCog Canvas is a free tool to help you understand your company's past and future financial health.

Founder & CEO

Stack Overflow

Financial Analyst (Nov 2014 - Jan 2016)
Financial Manager (Jan 2016 - Nov 2017)

Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online developer community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities.

Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow partners with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers. To learn more about Stack Overflow's business solutions - technical recruiting, advertising, market research, and enterprise knowledge sharing visit stackoverflowbusiness.com.

Director of Finance

Hailo

Hailo is the evolution of the hail - a free smartphone app which puts people just two taps away from a licensed taxi, and lets cabbies get more passengers when they want them.

Senior Accountant/Financial Analyst

Brilliant Transportation

Brilliant is a revolutionary ground transportation firm focused on creating a travel experience that allows executives and companies to maximize their time.

Financial Analyst

PwC is a multinational professional services firm that provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders.

Experienced Associate

• Founder of a new AI stealth startup

• I'm a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and a full-stack software developer

• I built AI financial projections software

• I've worked with companies for over 10 years to help them raise money (and not run out of it)

• I write about business finance, cash runway, modeling, metrics, FP&A, equity ownership, programming, and more.

Medical device company

Leading cross disciplinary teams in the development of high performance, high scale consumer facing mobile and web applications for improved healthcare outcomes.

Managed R&D teams of 10-20 people, developing new AI based algorithms for Continual Glucose Monitoring (CGM) devices, SaaS clinical decision support, mobile apps, web apps, and wearable insulin pumps.

Overseeing strategic projects in alignment with ADC objectives and processes with third-party partners, translating and balancing business needs into implementations, setting the scope and priorities, and performing cybersecurity and risk management.

Facilitate communication, problem-solving, and goal alignment between R&D teams, legal, regulatory compliance, and ADC management.

Technical Product Manager, Decision & Algorithms Group 

Delta Analytics

Managed teams of 3-4 data scientists, working on projects with global non-profit companies, establishing the vision and roadmap. Responsible for hiring data scientist fellows and project leads. Developed production ready machine learning solutions, KPIs, dashboards, and data pipelines to create immediate impact for our clients.

Developed production quality machine learning algorithms and analytics solutions in Python, SQL and R. Created data visualizations and dashboards in PowerBI, Tableau, Keen.io and Google Analytics.

Data Science Manger, Operations Team 

University of San Francisco

Instructor for the “Fundamentals of Business Analytics” class for both undergraduate and graduate business students. Focus on spreadsheet modeling and analytics in Excel, utilizing real-world examples. Topics include regression, forecasting, pivot tables, visualization, simulation and linear programming.

2016 – present: “Fundamentals of Business Analytics” class for undergraduate students
2023 – present: “Analytics for Innovation” class for graduate students in MBA/MSEI programs
2024 - present: “Thinking Like a Data Scientist” class for senior level undergraduate students

Adjunct Professor of Business Analytics

Cala Health

Hands-on technical leadership of software/data science development and DevOps/MLOps release processes. Coordinated deliverables of teams in California, Canada and Croatia and utilized streamlined engineering workflows to reduce release time of AWS cloud platform, iOS software and product firmware by 50%.

Mentored two junior data scientists on best practices in software engineering and data science as applied in medical device product development to reduce onboarding time by 25%. 

Established new ML algorithms, KPIs, modeling and process standards for software engineering and data science, reducing release time to production by 40%. Managed dependencies and priorities for software releases.

Removed silos and developed stronger relationships between engineering, product and data science teams through fostering communication, finding common ground and developing roadmap of projects for working collaboratively.

Performed risk management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis. Implemented software development processes and documentation in compliance with ISO-13485, HIPAA and IEC-62304. Successfully passed IEC-62304 audit.

Technical Project Manager, Software Engineering

Procept BioRobotics

Managed software development process for 3 engineers, coordinated deliverables for SW/HW integration. 50% coding and 50% management. Developed software in C# and WPF for real-time UI workflow and image processing. Architect for Jenkins CI/CD for automated software builds and deployment.

Developed a baseline OS image and DevOps infrastructure to reduce production time by 30% and to facilitate standardized software/hardware integration. Responsible for integrating third-party imaging systems and working hands-on with hardware components.

Wrote product specifications, performed risk management, acceptance testing, unit tests and validation/verification documentation following regulatory standards compliance with ISO-13485 & IEC-62304. Provided engineering support and troubleshooting expertise for worldwide clinical trials.

Director of Software Engineering

Centro Community Partners

MBA Advisor

Restoration Robotics

•	As employee #10, I took on significant responsibilities for software architecture, DevOps infrastructure and was pivotal in the software/hardware integration, working with robotic arms and hundreds of electrical and mechanical components.

•	Lead architect and product owner for the system calibration software, written in C++ and C# with WinForms/WPF, utilizing OpenCV for image processing, classification and object identification.

•	I developed a customized system in C++ for performing real-time data analysis and predictive analytics on multiple TB of clinical data. Built customized machine learning models, dashboards, metrics and tools in C++, C#, Excel and Matlab for real-time system diagnostics, analytics and classification, resulting in a 50% reduction in field support costs and a 25% reduction in production costs.

•	Worked with doctors, clinicians and other external stakeholders to perform training, troubleshooting, and system installation. Trained international support teams in Japan and China. Collaborated with global third-party suppliers located in China and Europe for procurement and evaluation of system components. 

•	Created a new set of processes and procedures for system installation, software/hardware integration for production, upgrades and maintenance for regulatory compliance with ISO-13485 & IEC-62304, resulting in $2 million in sales outside of the US.

Technical Product Manager/Principal Software Engineer

Labcyte

Software Engineer & SCM Manager

Various companies

Worked at various startups and established companies in semiconductor, consumer software, biomedical software, storage and web-based applications.

Software Engineer

Jandel Scientific

Professional Services Engineer

Citizen of data science. Professor. Leader in data science and software engineering.

Extensive software engineering & data science experience using agile methodologies on Class 2 medical devices and biotechnology. Developed software using C++, C#, WPF & Python on robotics, embedded systems and IoT. Experienced in developing customer and stakeholder relationships, risk management, SW/HW integration, project & release management, and safety-critical systems.

- Software engineering management
- Data analysis and visualization in Excel, Python, R, Matlab, Jupyter Notebook, C++, C#, NoSQL, SQL
- Implementation of CI/CD and software development/release pipelines
- Building customized ML models in C# and Python
- Front-End and Back-end programming in C, C++ and C#
- Real-time computer vision, object detection
- Project management 
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- Risk management (FMEA)


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