Team
Recoset’s team of visionary engineers and programmers have developed the most sophisticated predictive analysis tools on the web. We’re small and fast and young and smart. The big companies just talk about the latest technology; our eclectic team just goes ahead and builds it.
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james@recoset.com
James Prudhomme
CEOJames is a seasoned executive with more than 15 years’ experience in the digital media eco system. He describes himself as a creative, resourceful, innovator. He has an unparalleled hands-on experience with ad networks and real-time ad-exchanges coupled with an appreciation for how data is changing the industry.
Before joining Recoset, James held a variety of increasingly senior positions in the digital media industry, including stints at Yahoo / Hot Jobs, AOL, Sympatico / MSN and as the General Manager of Advertising.com Canada. After leaving Ad.com, and before taking the plunge in to a start up, James consulted to many of Canada's leading digital publishers including Yellow Pages Group, Rogers Digital Media and The Globe and Mail where he helped the sr executives at these companies understand and leverage the opportunities in today's data-driven, real time advertising eco system.
James is The Executive.
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jeremy@recoset.com
Jeremy Barnes
Co-Founder & CTOJeremy is an engineer, researcher, computer scientist and runner, in that order. He started programming when he was 10. By 14 he was soldering customized components into his computer’s creaky logic board. Today Jeremy’s specialty is the use of Machine Learning to solve real-world problems using real-world data. He is a data athlete. He loves nothing more than discovering and taming wild datasets, although he also has the stamina for vast terabytes of data crunching.
Before starting Recoset, Jeremy was a founder and tech lead at Idilia Inc, where he helped develop natural-language disambiguation technology for queries, documents and ads. He was responsible both for the overall architecture of the system and for inventing many of the linguistic algorithms and the core architecture of the technology. The latter was built on top of a fast and flexible machine learning library called JML (Jeremy's Machine Learning library) that grew out of his university thesis. He has two patents pending on the key ideas of Idilia's system.
Before joining Idilia, Jeremy graduated first in his Engineering class from the Australian National University. He was awarded the University Medal for his Engineering degree, and subsequently offered a prestigious Regent's scholarship for a PhD at the University of California. He turned it down for the chance to implement his ideas at Idilia.
Jeremy is a fierce competitor in both the programming and sports worlds. He recently placed second in the international GitHub data analysis contest, and 3rd in the AUSDM data mining competition. He has hiked to Everest base camp, trained with Tour de France winner Cadel Evans, and may still hold an under 10 club 1500 meter record in his native Australia. A recent father, Jeremy thinks often about how the technologies he develops may be used to make the world a better place.
Jeremy is The Athlete.
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nicolas@recoset.com
Nicolas Kruchten, Eng
Software EngineerWhen Nicolas left his Director of Technology position at Engineers Without Borders in 2008, they created the Nicolas Kruchten Award for Exceptional Service in his honour. A workhorse and tireless polymath, Nicolas is fluent in the use of a broad range of technologies, including Java, C#, Python, Javscript, C++, SQL and several others. He learned distributed computing before anyone had even heard of it, and in the past 10 years has mastered everything from travel demand modeling to genetic algorithms, online groupware, business intelligence, visualization, e-commerce and GUI applications.
He also builds robots. When he wakes up in the morning he uses his iPhone to program the espresso machine. He loves nothing more that to transform a discombobulated slurry of data into something people can actually visualize and understand. He is an activist on behalf of software engineering in general, and works hard to apply and promulgate best practices within the field.
Nicolas is The Inventor.
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sean@recoset.com
Sean Braithwaite
Software DeveloperBraithwaite Patrick Sean is a performance artist and hacker living and working in Montreal. He is a self-taught programmer. His code is remarkable for its beauty. It has a pleasing emergent structure or pattern, not surprising given Sean’s intense interest in the art and mathematics of topology.
Sean uses computers to make art and loves the idea of melding computers to life in seamless ways. Some believe he is from the future.
Sean is The Artist.
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francois@recoset.com
François Maillet
Machine Learning SpecialistFrançois is a computer scientist by day and a musician by night. He obtained a Master's in Computer Science from the prestigious University of Montreal LISA lab, where his research focused on using machine learning to solve music-related problems such as auto-tagging and playlist generation. He helped create a web-scale music recommendation platform for Sun Microsystems Labs in Boston, developed an audio-finger-printer for Eloda in Montreal, and was aggressively headhunted by Google in San Francisco. But we got him first.
In 2008 François released a rock and roll album, although no one at Recoset has ever seen him play live, on account of his laid-back Québécois modesty. His latest invention is a program that can take an MRI image of someone’s brain and tell whether or not they play music professionally. Unfortunately, it cannot predict platinum-level success. Yet.
François is The Musician.
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daniel@recoset.com
Daniel Haran
Co-FounderDaniel is an original co-founder of Recoset. He no longer works day-to-day but continues to advise on strategy.
Daniel is a versatile technologist with an eclectic dance card ranging from academic book sales to Java software architecture to professional swing instructor. Prior to selling textbooks he obtained a diploma in business administration and twice dropped out of Dalhousie University, claiming it was interfering with his education. He is a free-thinker in the classic liberal mode, always challenging conventional wisdom. In 2006 he sued the city of Halifax for open access to transit data and lost on a technicality.
After discovering the programming language Ruby on Rails in the spring of 2006, Daniel fell in love with its simplicity and productivity. He quit Java to work exclusively with Rails. Not content to simply evangelize the technology among his friends, he became the organizer for the Montreal Ruby community's monthly meetings. Today Daniel makes his own chocolate and a delicious prize-winning chocolate stout. He is a nimble programmer and Github Contest prize-winner. He has swung with some of the most famous dancers in the world.
Daniel is The Dancer.