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Jose Barrera

Chief AI Officer • Chief Data Officer • CTO

New York, New York, United States

About

Visionary technology leader with 30+ years of experience architecting breakthrough software systems, designing AI-native products, and leading multidisciplinary teams across startups, academia, and top-tier financial institutions. Currently Chief AI Officer & Founding Team Member at BoomBand, building one of the world’s largest talent-intelligence platforms. Recognized for uniting deep technical expertise with strategic clarity, product intuition, and people leadership.

Superpower

A rare bridge between deep AI research and large-scale commercial product engineering, capable of architecting systems that handle 300M+ data points.

Experience

  • Chief AI Officer & Founding Team Member at BoomBand · Jan 2025 – Present
  • AI Advisor at Ecosistema De Innovacin, Transferencia Y Emprendimiento Uniandes · Apr 2024
  • Senior Lead Application Developer at Elemental Cognition · Jan 2020
  • Senior Lead Application Developer at Bridgewater Associates · Jan 2015 – Jan 2020
  • Hands-on Development Manager at Tradingscreen · Aug 2012 – Aug 2015
  • Hands-on Development Manager at Tradingscreen · Jun 2004 – May 2012
  • Development Manager at TradingScreen · Jan 2004 – Jan 2015
  • Director for Latin America at TradingScreen · Jan 2004 – Jan 2015
  • Lead GUI Developer at Amaranth Advisors Llc · Jan 2003 – Jun 2004
  • Lead GUI Developer at Amaranth Advisors · Jan 2003 – Jan 2004
  • Director, Internet Applications Development at Caminus Corporation · Jan 1997 – Jan 2002
  • Systems Manager at Nyu Comprehensive Epilepsy Center,The · Sep 1994 – May 1997
  • Systems Manager at NYU Medical Center · Jan 1994 – Jan 1997
  • Graduate Assistant - Computer Science Department at Ecosistema De Innovacin, Transferencia Y Emprendimiento Uniandes · Oct 1993 – Aug 1994
  • Graduate Assistant at Los Andes University · Jan 1993 – Jan 1994
  • Computer Assurance Engineer at Deloitte · Jan 1992 – Jan 1993

Education

  • MS · Computer Sciences at New York University · Sep 1994 – Jun 1996
  • BS · Systems and Computers Engineering at Los Andes University
  • BS · Systems and Computers Engineering at Ecosistema De Innovacin, Transferencia Y Emprendimiento Uniandes · Jun 1992

Stories

AI Board Advisor

Responsible for advising the university’s board on the strategy to embrace AI and prepare the institution to the coming changes implied by artificial intelligence, both in their curriculum as well as in their day-to-day activities.

Alchemy

egypt

Egypt

Photography

Skills

agents, Application Framework Architecture, Budgeting, Contract Negotiation, Data Analysis, Data Architecture, Data Clean-up, Deal Negotiation, Docker, Electronic Trading, Embedding, Engineering Management, Financial Markets, fintech, Functional Java 8, Git, Hybrid Systems, Information Retrieval, Java, Jira, large language models, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Node.js, pgvector, Portfolio Management, postgres, Python, React, Reasoning Tools, Recruiting, Relational Data Mining, Relational Databases, REST, RxJS, SQL, supabase, Swing, Systems Architecture, technology strategy, Trading, Training/Testing Sets, TypeScript