Alan Descoins

CEO & Partner @ Tryolabs | Board & Partner @ Thaloz | Angel Investor | 15 years in AI and counting | Helping companies navigate tech and accelerate adoption of AI

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Alan Descoins is the CEO and Partner at Tryolabs, where he has served in various leadership roles for over 15 years, specializing in AI and technology adoption. He is also a Board Member and Partner at Thaloz, leveraging his expertise to guide companies through tech challenges and accelerate AI integration. His career highlights include leading Tryolabs to success, investing in Thaloz, and providing guidance to companies in navigating technological advancements.

Work Experience 

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Tryolabs

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2023 - Current

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2015 - 2023

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2011 - 2015

    Joined as one of the first employees, with my area of expertise being Python development and NLP/AI systems. Broad knowledge and experience with the Django framework, agile methodologies, project management, cloud infrastructure, and permanent contact with clients. Some of the projects I have developed or been involved in: • Lively (http://www.mylively.com/), the connected home health platform that provides a medical alert device older adults actually want to wear. First developer of what became a team of ~10. Being involved for 3 years, I was lead backend developer in and responsible for entire infrastructure of clusters and automated deployments. Keys: Python/Django, REST, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Infrastructure, Cloud. • DayWatch, a real-time daily deal market monitoring and analysis tool. Keys: Python/Django, Scrapy. • A collaborative content-recommendation system for a platform that targets secure internet content for kids. Keys: nltk, numpy, scipy, pytables. • A User Directory management application for organizations in Django, with tight security requirements, a custom permission back-end, a REST API and thoroughly tested. Keys: Python/Django, REST. • A personalization of a Workflow engine in Python for a company managing leases of computer equipment. Keys: Python/Django, RabbitMQ. • An API for automatic retrieval of varied data of companies from several sites of the US government. Keys: Python, Scrapy. • System for clustering text based on semantic similarity for detecting near-duplicates in meaning. Keys: nltk, WordNet. • Site for developers of the Telesocial platform, a company dedicated to bring voice chat to social networks. Keys: Python/Django.

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Thaloz

  • Investor, Advisor & Board Member

    2021

    Thaloz helps companies hire pre-vetted remote software developers who have solid skills and work in their timezone.

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IBM

  • IT Specialist

    2009 - 2011

    Development of custom e-banking solutions in the Java EE platform, for several of the most important banks in the region. Responsible for handling a large codebase in a small team, and direct contact with clients at all times. Worked with state of the art proprietary frameworks that interact with bank's backend systems, as well as other tools such as IBM WebSphere MQ and ClearCase for version control. Did both backend as well as some frontend work.

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