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. Most recently, he spent two years as VP of Software Engineering at Capital One. He was previously a co-founder of 3 software companies, has published several technical papers, and holds 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!