Alisson Sol is a
hands-on engineering leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, AI, and scaling products
to millions of users at top tech companies. He has built and managed teams that delivered
applications, services, and frameworks across Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine
Learning, Big Data, Cybersecurity, and Distributed Systems.
He lives in the NYC area, where he is currently a co-founder of a stealth startup. He relocated from Seattle to New York in mid-2022 to join Google as an Engineering Manager for the Security Fundamentals team, a role he held until December/2023. Prior to that, he worked twice for Microsoft Corporation from 2000 to 2022, across several teams in the Seattle, WA area and at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. At Amazon from 2017 to 2019, he served as Senior Development Manager for AWS WorkSpaces and the direct fulfillment (dropship) teams. He has been the architect for an ERP system for four years, spent two years as VP of Software Engineering at Capital One, and has contributed to several open source projects. He was previously a co-founder of 3 software companies, has published several technical papers, and co-authored multiple patents.
He has a B.Sc. in Physics and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, along with General Management training at the University of Cambridge-UK. When not coding, he likes to run half-marathons, play soccer, disassemble hardware, put it back to work, and reuse the spare parts elsewhere!
Upcoming events
- The way to Edge AI - LLMDay, March 6, 2026, VIAM 1900 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
- Panel participant at 8th Annual Cloud Security - 24th February 2025, New York City, One WTC
Past presentations
- Debugging Your AI Solution - Jun/2025 - slides
- Bad Data In, Years of Useless Analysis - then Purged - Jun/2025 - slides
- Bad Data Analysis - Aug/2024 - slides
- Data, Compute, Network, Power Consumption - Nov/2023 - slides
- DATAnalyze 2021 - Oct/2021 - slides
- Desenvolvimento de Projetos e Sustentação de Produtos (Portuguese) - Sep/2021 - slides
- How to finish the Boston Marathon - Jul/2021 - slides
- AI circa 2018 - Sep/2018 - slides
- Containers demo - Jul/2016 - slides
- Developing a Data-Driven Web Attack Detector - Big Data Security Symposium 2015 - video
- Protect Your Online Services with Big Data and Machine Learning - MSDN Jan/2015 - article
- Using big data and machine learning to protect your online service - TechEd Europe 2014 - slides
- Real-world machine learning: how Kinect gesture recognition works - Build 2013 - slides + video
- Kinect for Windows SDK+Toolkit - Part of CVPR 2013 tutorial - slides
- Machine Learning Applied to Device Scenarios - Microsoft Devices Summit 2013 - slides
- Computer Vision in Kinect for Windows - SIBGRAPI 2012 - slides + video
- Optimizing Release Cadence: Metrics and Research - Nov/2011 - slides
- Fundamentals of Distributed Systems - Jun/2011 - slides
- Pragmatic Security - May/2011 - slides
- Reusing your knowledge (in Portuguese) - Mar/2010 - slides
- Debugging your mindset - NxtGenUG - Jun/2009 - slides
- Doing Software in Large Software Companies - NxtGenUG - Mar/2009 - slides
- Invited Speaker: AutoCollage: From Paper to Product - SIBGRAPI 2008 - slides + AutoCollage 2008 Team video
- Tutorial A Service-Oriented Application for an Enterprise Datacentre - slides
- Digital TV: The Software Components - SIBGRAPI 2007 - slides + Part 1 Video
- SBTVD and Microsoft TV Technologies - SIBGRAPI 2006 - slides
- XQuery and XPath - SBLP 2005 - slides
- Applying academic knowledge in the Software Industry - SBLP 2005 - slides
- .NET 2.0 Programming - SBLP 2005 - slides
Academic work
- A metamodel for distributed multimedia processing systems development - pdf
- "PhotoPix: Uma plataforma para sistemas de processamento digital de imagens orientada para objetos" (in Portuguese) - pdf
- "PhotoPix: an Object-Oriented Framework for Digital Image Processing Systems - pdf - Conference proceedings
- Google Scholar profile
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