John Stone

John Stone

Founder & CEO

Scientist, engineer, and leader with 20+ years of experience designing creative and simple solutions to accelerate customer value. Passionate about AI, machine learning, and making technology accessible.

Experience

AIKind

Founder & CEO

2024-Present

Founded AIKind to make AI accessible and beneficial for everyone. Building a comprehensive AI ecosystem with agents, models, connections, devices, and consulting services.

Indeed

Software Development Manager & Senior Engineer

2022-2024

Led team focused on employer-jobseeker outreach using LLMs via OpenAI's ChatGPT. Previously worked on AI bot prevention combining internally developed models with hCaptcha Enterprise.

GTRI (Georgia Tech Research Institute)

Branch Head & Senior Research Scientist

2020-2022

Led Intelligent Systems Design branch within SEAL lab developing C2, mesh network, 5G, radar, and swarm capabilities. Contributed to COVID-19 contact tracing via open source BLE projects.

Broadcom (Symantec)

Staff R&D Software Engineer

2014-2020

Built file-based columnar database and RFQL query language. Designed Active & Deep Learning features using PyTorch and Sklearn. Worked on Risk Fabric cybersecurity platform.

Amazon & AWS

SDE, Manager & Solution Architect

2011-2014

Head of technology for Amazon virtual storefront. Transitioned to AWS focusing on enterprise cloud migrations. Top 1% performance ratings, built and led teams of 5-20 engineers.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering

4.0 GPA

DSP, Architectures, Radar, Electro-Optics & Nano-photonics

Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S. Computer Science

4.0 GPA

AI, Machine Learning, Networks, OS, DB, InfoSec, FFT/Graph Algorithms

University of Central Florida

B.S. Computer Science

Computer Logic, Discrete Structures, Algorithms, OOP

Publications

  • Portable Ultraviolet-C Disinfection Systems for COVID-19 (2020 IRAD)
  • Low Cost Swarm STITCHES Link 16 (GTRI IRAD 2021)
  • ABMS MeshONE Reference Implementation Lab Study (2021)
  • CoEpi: Community Epidemiology in Action (GTRI IRAD 2020)

Certifications

GCP (2020)
AWS Developer & Solution Architect Professional (2014)
ColdFusion 8/MX (2000)
CompTIA A+ (1999)

Speaking Engagements

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Atlanta Deep Learning Meetup

100+ attendees • May 2017

Neural Network Architecture

Atlanta Deep Learning Meetup

100+ attendees • April 2017

Cloud Configuration Management

COX Enterprises Private Event

100+ attendees • August 2014

Interests & Expertise

Brain-machine Interfaces
WebGPU
FPGAs
IoT
Quantum Computing
3D Printing
Blockchain
Drones
Robotics
AI/ML
Game Design
AR/VR/MR
Functional Programming