Shawn Rutledge is an accomplished machine learning practitioner with over a decade of experience building analytics solutions across verticals as diverse as financial services, travel, and social media. While he has served as a technology executive for IBM, First Data, and Expedia, he is most at home in the startup environment and has been a principal contributor, leader, advisor, and angel investor to more than a dozen Seattle area startups.

Shawn holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science and has completed graduate coursework in Statistics at Stanford.