Meet OUR TEAM
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Our team works at the intersection of conservation, AI, engineering, and academia. We take pride in what we do, and even more pride in how we treat each other. Protecting wildlife is an international problem, and you'll see that in our team.
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Product Team
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Tanya Stere - Product Manager
Tanya Stere is a product manager with strong project management undertones. With a varied background dealing with everything from production-grade soldering to technical writing, her goal has always been to drive customer value at scale. All this is combined with a love for conservation and sustainability, and she is a great fit here at Wild Me. |
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Anastasia Pagán - Customer Support Engineer
Anastasia has a 10-year background in customer success, training, and content strategy. You can find her in the Wild Me Community Forums solving problems for our users. In her spare time, she plays the guitar, designs video games, and restores vintage toys and electronics. |
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Pratistha Buddhacharya - UI/UX Designer
During the week, you can find Pratistha in front of a screen creating wireframes, designing interfaces for websites and apps, and prototyping. On the weekends she loves to daydream, spend time with family, and binge-watch Youtube. She is introverted and a little shy, but confident that she can learn and grow to become whatever she wishes to be. |
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Akshat Kashyap - UX designer
Akshat is passionate about finding solutions to problems that will make life easier for billions of people. Akshat has a bachelor’s degree in graphics and animation. He loves playing real football (soccer) and is learning to play guitar. |
Engineering Team
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Tamilselvan Subramanian - Machine Learning Engineer
Tamilselvan is an architect, artificial intelligence enthusiast, and developer. He is currently building an AI-driven platform for EV vehicle lifecycle management in India. In the past, he built an AI Healthcare cloud platform to aid diagnosis and predict possible diseases from ophthalmology, radiology, and colonoscopy imaging. He was a core founding member of a cloud-based enterprise AI platform operationalized in three customer locations. He has 20 years of IT product and service delivery experience. He has worked with more than a hundred international and local customers and received many customer awards. In his free time, he helps build a Roblox game for his kid. |
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Lasha Otarashvili - Machine Learning Engineer
Lasha is a curious engineer keen on solving complex problems in novel and explainable ways. Lasha believes that important, real-world challenges can be solved by engaging with them on multiple levels of abstraction. His exposure to research and applications in deep learning, machine learning, and computer vision, as well as a general background in math, statistics, physics, and software engineering, allows him to think broadly and approach complex problems methodologically. Through the experience of working with teams on novel challenges from diverse backgrounds, Lasha believes that achieving shared goals is a product of hard individual work and effective teamwork. Lasha is also an avid wildlife and environment enthusiast for life. The opportunity to contribute to shaping a better world is an inexhaustible source of his motivation. |
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Erin Zhang - Software Engineer
Erin has a couple of years’ experience building front-end applications and has excellent OOP, java language, Node.js and React.js framework knowledge. Also JavaScript language, HTML and CSS languages and great understanding of HTTP and web applications lifecycle specifically single page applications. Strong knowledge of unit testing concepts and understanding of behavior driven tests and of continuous integration and deployment processes. Great experience with source control system (Git), issue tracking systems like JIRA. |
Solutions Team
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Jason Holmberg - Executive Director and Co-founder
Jason Holmberg has logged thousands of hours of development time as Wild Me’s original Information Architect. Using Jason’s tools, our projects have been able to categorize and manage a large amount of wildlife data, promote collaboration across borders and data sets, and identify individual animals from multiple photos taken by different researchers many years apart. Jason was the lead author and population modeler for two widely lauded papers covering whale shark population trajectories at Ningaloo Marine Park in Western Australia. Through this, he demonstrated that citizen science data can provide improved insight and population models through the greater acquisition of high-quality data. Building on 20 years of experience in wildlife software, Jason now provides organizational leadership as Executive Director. |
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Jon Van Oast - Solutions Architect
Jon Van Oast has been developing online collaborative software for over twenty years. He has a passion for open-source software and hardware, open data, citizen science, and conservation. |
