Erik Buchanan

Erik is an AI engineering leader. He led the AI team for LinkedIn's hiring products, and built an education program called AI Academy there to drive LinkedIn's AI-first shift. Erik led engineering for tech startups Connectifier and CloseFactor.  He also worked on the early versions of Microsoft Azure and Bing Search, and built big-data systems at Google. Before that, Erik did graduate security research at UC San Diego in Return-Oriented Programming, an exploit technique.