About
DJ Patil is an entrepreneur, investor, scientist, and leader in public policy. He has held senior roles in industry, academia, and government and his work has been featured in two Michael Lewis books. Notable early stage investments include Figma, Confluent, Ola in India, Monte Carlo, Chronosphere, Sumologic, RelateIQ, and Nixtla. He is a board member for Devoted Health where he was a member of the founding team and CTO with the mission to build a health care system that takes care of every member like they were family. Previously he led the product teams at RelateIQ which was acquired by Salesforce, and was founding board member for Crisis Text Line which works to use new technologies to provide on demand mental and crisis support. At LinkedIn he was Chief Scientist, Chief Security Officer and led the data efforts which included recommendation systems like People You May Know, Who Viewed My Profile, and Jobs You May Like; new technologies like Kafka; co-coining the term Data Scientist…
Experience
General Partner
GreatPoint Ventures · San Francisco Bay Area
Present
Focused on building companies in healthcare, enterprise technologies, and national security. Previous investments include Figma, Confluent, Ola in India, Monte Carlo, Chronosphere, Sumologic, Peoplehood, RelateIQ, and Rebellion Defense.
Chief Technology Officer
Devoted Health · San Francisco Bay Area & Boston
We're on a mission to build a health plan that takes care of *every* member like they were a member of our family. We do that through great technology, data, design, and most of all love. Check us out at Devoted.com
Senior Fellow
Harvard's Belfer Center · San Francisco Bay Area & Greater Boston Area
Senior Fellow for Technology and Public Purpose Project Senior Fellow for Cybersecurity Project
Senior Staff and Cto
Responsible for Technology Strategy & Delivery planning and policies, agency review teams, and appointments.
Founding Board Member
Crisis Text Line · Greater New York City Area
Founding board member from 2012 - Feb 2015 and then from Aug 2017 - current. Helping save lives through technology. Couldn't ask to work with a more passionate and dedicated crew. It's an honor.
U.S. Chief Data Scientist
The White House · Washington D.C. Metro Area
Appointed as the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist and established the mission of the office: To responsibly unleash the power of data for the benefit of the American public and maximize the nation’s return on its investment in data. Some of the things we were responsible for: Healthcare Entering the genomic era of medicine - Precision Medicine Initiative (announced State of the Union 2015) End cancer - Cancer Moonshot (announced State of the Union 2016) Electronic medical records, patients access to data and data interoperability Cybersecurity and the health ecosystem Ending suicide and improving mental health Criminal Justice Increase trust between law enforcement & citizens - Police Data Initiative - 44M Americans and 130 jurisdictions (launched by the President in Camden New Jersey) End the endless of cycle of incarceration - Data Driven Justice Initiative - 94M Americans, 141 jurisdictions and 10 States Big Data and Artificial Intelligence National Strategy All data courses must hav…
Vp of Product
Applying data science to decision making. One of the original 3 Advisors with Bob Cohn and Bill Campbell from initial idea through launch VP of Product to accelerate the business & product development execution Acquired by Salesforce.com for ~$400M
Data Scientist in Residence
A hybrid between Entrepreneur in Residence and Executive in Residence where I get to think about the next great challenge and help out companies in the process. Some of the content that I've created during this time: - University of Maryland Commencement Speech -- http://bit.ly/MMzW5r http://bit.ly/Qj7cQY - Building Data Science Teams -- http://amzn.to/pgmVPa - Data Jujitsu -- The art of turning data into product -- http://amzn.to/Si69zX
Head of Data Products, Chief Scientist, and Chief Security Officer
Responsible for the following areas: - Product teams on Data products - Decision Sciences and Business Intelligence - Fraud, Abuse, Risk, and Security Led and executed strategy for LinkedIn to (a) become a data driven company and (b) have a product portfolio of data driven products. Of all of our accomplishments, I’ve most proud of the team we built and believe that, pound-for-pound, it is the best Data Science and Engineering Team assembled. I can’t emphasize enough how much this was a team effort. Some of our products include: - People You May Know (did you know this was invented by LinkedIn?) - Who’s Viewed My Profile, Profile Stats, Who’s Viewed My Job, etc - Talent Match (when you post a job it returns the best matched candidates) - Jobs You May Be Interested In - InMaps (real time interactive visualization of your LinkedIn network) - Analytically driven email campaigns (Fortune called this the best email you’ll receive this year) - Groups You Might Like - Skills - Many more… Some…
Director - Strategy, Analytics, and Product / Distinguished Research Scientist
eBay Inc. (eBay, PayPal, Skype, ...)
- Principal Architect July 2006 – Sept. 2007 • Led strategy, product, and analytics for a technology platform that enabled integration for all for eBay Inc. companies (eBay.com, PayPal.com, Skype, StubHub, Shopping.com, etc). • Founding team member and lead architect for core technologies. Responsible for products (federated services, identity management, payment gateways, cross–platform messaging, and API gateways) with 99.99% availability and a global operational presence in 7 locations. • Established a program to provide Skype headsets to NGOs working in the developing world. • Founded and led the Advanced Concepts Team at PayPal. Responsible for development of four major products, which resulted in $20M in savings in 2008. One of which was selected as the 2007 People’s choice Award. • 8 patents filed in the areas of social network analysis, visualization, customer service support, human computer interaction, machine learning, risk assessment, and behavior insights.
Education
University of Maryland
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics
UC San Diego
B.A., Mathematics
De Anza College
Monta Vista High School
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