Summary
Pierre Wellner is a seasoned founder, data scientist, and software architect with 13 years of experience delivering end-to-end data and software solutions across hardware, cloud, and analytics. As founder of AIRCODA, he built a wearable air-sensor platform with a mobile app, cloud databases, and a web map, publishing iOS and Android apps and applying ML analysis to environmental data. He previously led software engineering and data science teams at INFICON, guiding the Fusion Gas Analyzer product from concept to launch with robust databases, cloud services, and RESTful APIs. His career spans leadership roles from co-founder/CTO of Spiderphone to senior research roles at IDIAP and R&D at AT&T Bell Labs, reflecting a rare blend of entrepreneurship, research, and enterprise-scale engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, an MS in CS from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a business degree from Syracuse University, positioning him to translate complex research into practical, scalable solutions. Based in the Greater Syracuse area, he continues to fuse ML, data science, and IoT hardware with product development in a hands-on, leadership-focused manner.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Bachelor's degree, Business/Managerial Economics, Bachelor's degree, Business/Managerial Economics at Syracuse University
English, French