Kam Lasater

Professional Explorer / Software Leader / Builder / Maniac on a Mission

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About Me

I build and grow things.

In professional life that means teams, software products and software companies. In personal life that means I am a husband, father of four boys and gardener outside of Philadelphia PA. Mornings you can find me running, lifting or rolling bjj.

Projects

Personality Benchmark (personalitybenchmark.ai)

Gave personality disorder tests to 15 LLM models
Found 9 out of 15 LLMs had clinically significant personality findings
Read the blog post on findings from giving 15 LLMs personality disorder tests or explore the data in more details at www.personalitybenchmark.ai/

Experience

Manufactured (mfd.ai)

CTO

Aug 2024 - present

Responsible for internal and external software
Agent builder framework with observability, tuning, and deployment
Multiple agents built and deployed to production (Sales, Underwriting, Vendor Sourcing, Vendor Communications, Bookkeeping and )

Cyclic (cyclic.sh)

CEO / Cofounder

January 2021 - May 2024

Full stack javascript/python apps
From idea to 150k+ developers
Hosted PaaS built by team of 2
Grew revenue from $0 to $40k+ ARR

Black Knight Financial Services (bkfs.com)

Senior Development Manager

June 2018 - April 2020

Serverless AI product launched with 3 of top 10 US banks
Migrated to serverless build system
9 AWS Certifications in 14 months
Completed PCI SAQ-d process with assessor
Grew Engineering team from 6 to 19 engineers
Managed transition of Product POC to remote team of 8+ engineers

HeavyWater (heavywater.com)

Chief Technology Officer

January 2018 - June 2018 (acquired)

Grew dev team from 3 to 6
Managed development of core AI technology

LegalScience (legalscience.com)

Chief Executive Officer

April 2017 - December 2017

Closed first commercial data deal
Awarded 2+ million dollar SBIR grant
Implemented sales and marketing tracking tools
Implemented modern CICD practices

New Haven Bank (newhavenbank.com)

Board Member

October 2012 - April 2015

Board member of FDIC insured community bank
Member of Audit commitee
Member of Compensation commitee

SeeClickFix (seeclickfix.com)

Cofounder

January 2008 - October 2019 (acquired)

Grew revenue from $0 to ~$5M ARR
From idea to successful cash exit
Raised seed and two institutional rounds
Developed SaaS business model

HigherOne (higherone.com)

Software Engineer and Software Architect

June 2003 - April 2010 (IPO)

Early engineer to IPO
Helped grow company from 20 to 400 employees
Helped grow fintech product from $1M ARR to $100M ARR
Technical lead on two acquisitions

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

BS Electrical and Computer Engineering

1999 - 2003

I focused on the interface between hardware and software.
Course work: Operating Systems, Embedded Systems, Advanced Digital Design and Advanced Prototyping Lab
Teaching Assistant: Embedded Systems and Advanced Digital Design
Languages: C, Verilog, Java
Tools: XEmacs, Make, CVS

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