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brian kachnowski

Executive CTO / Software R&D Leader specializing in mobile, GPU computing, and quantitative finance

Flash SocialUniversity of MichiganFlorida, USA39 Years ExperienceExecutive Level

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Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.

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Key Strengths

  • Early adopter of emerging tech (GPU computing in 2009) and executed via joint venture
  • Built/extended high-speed GPU-based ML system (NeuroSolutions Infinity) under revenue-share model
  • Strong quant/academic rigor focus: backtesting with anti-overfitting discipline; avoids non-theoretical “lore-based” tools
  • Resource-efficient product execution: prioritizes critical features with end-user input; emphasizes platform stability over rewrites
  • Partnership-led growth strategy for vertical social platforms (leveraging partners’ existing distribution/advertising)
  • Entrepreneurial commitment since 2009; willing to work primarily for equity

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Experience

CTO/co-founderFork’d · Jan 2025 – Present
Acting CTOKargoe · Jan 2015 – Present
Co-founder / CTOAbxium Inc. · Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Started Differential Enterprises LLC for freelance & consulting for mobile and general software devDifferential Enterprises LLC (diffent.com) · Jun 2009 – Presentfreelance
Process and Technology Group software engineer / team leadershipFord Motor Company · Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
Product Analysis & Verification software engineer / team leadershipFord Motor Company · Jan 2000 – Jan 2007
CAE software developmentFord Motor Company · Jan 1996 – Jan 2000
Heavy truck CAD/CAM for 3D solid modeling, CAD process & methods, CAD/CAM futuring studiesFord Motor Company · Jan 1994 – Jan 1996
CAD/CAM software devFord Motor Company · Jan 1988 – Jan 1994
Board level hardware design and assembly language code for 8 and 4 bit microprocessors (internships along with college)TRW Transportation Electronics · Jan 1986 – Jan 1988internship

Education

University of Michiganbachelor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Awards

  • 2007 Ford Executive Award in CAE for robust optimization of occupant restraint systems
  • 2005 Henry Ford Technology Award for a genetic optimizer system tuned to solve multi-occupant crash safety design problems
  • 2005 Society of Automotive Engineers Isbrandt Award for chest injury risk analysis study (co-author)

Skills

LeadershipTeam buildingRecruitingFull-stack developmentLinuxWindowsAWSAmazon EC2Amazon S3VercelFirebaseSwiftJavaReact NativeJavaScript

Languages

English

Certifications

Asset Pricing Part 1 by Prof. J. Cochrane (Coursera)Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management bootcamp (Baruch College, NYC)Advanced Econometric Modeling (Minneapolis Fed Reserve Bank, sponsored by NABE)Econometric Data and Models (National Association of Business Economics professional development seminar)

Publications

107 publications

Quantitative financeFinancial risk analysisPortfolio analyticsEconometricsTime series forecastingCryptocurrency price forecastingMachine learning for asset pricingStochastic volatility modelingMonte Carlo methods

Memberships

  • Society of Quantitative Analysts (SQA)
  • National Association of Business Economics (NABE)

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