Alon

Senior Technical Product Owner at Veridix AI. Head Varsity Water Polo coach at Berkeley High School. Development Coach at Contra Costa United. Head Chef and Founder at Berkeley Supper Club. Stagiere at the Cultured Pickle Shop. Event Chef at A Forkfull of Earth Catering.

Professional Experience

Veridix AI, Remote, US

Senior Technical Product Owner | March 2025 - Present

Medidata Solutions, Remote, US

Senior Business Analyst | Apr. 2022 - March 2025

Business Systems Analyst | Jan. 2021 - Apr. 2022

Test Engineer | Apr. 2019 - Dec. 2020

Google, NYC

Search Language Specialist (contract) | July 2018 - Apr. 2019

Laboratory of Informatics and Data Mining, Fordham University

Research Lead | Oct. 2016 - June 2018

LucidLogix, Netanya, Israel

Mobile QA Automation Engineer | July 2016 - Aug. 2016

Athletic Department, Fordham University

Italian Tutor | October 2014 - April 2015

Leadership Experience

Head Varsity Water Polo Coach — Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA (Present)
Water Polo Coach — Contra Costa United, Lafayette, CA (Present)
Senior Leadership team member and Culture Leader for Veridix AI's Data Science team (Present)
Senior Leadership team member on Medidata's Document Management Platform, RCM (2021-2025)
Head Junior Varsity Water Polo Coach — Acalanes High School, Lafayette, CA (2023)
Water Polo Coach — AquaTex Water Polo Club, Round Rock, TX (2021-2023)
Project Lead — Pastafy (2019): Scraped thousands of pasta recipes from datasets available online to provide users with an ingredient prediction tool powered by machine learning
Project Lead — Italian Dialect Survey (2017): Created a machine learning tool that classifies a user’s region of origin in Italy using an 11-question survey.
Project Lead — WatsHere (2016-18): Led team of five researchers and social workers at the Laboratory of Informatics and Data Mining (LIDM)

Food Service Experience

Stagiere — Chez Panisse (Jan 2025 - Aug 2025)
Stagieire — The Cultured Pickle Shop, Berkeley, CA (September 2023 - Present)
Founder and Head Chef — Berkeley Supper Club (Aug 2023 - Present)
MHWOW Host — Moishe House (August 2024 - Present)
Event Chef — A Fork Full of Earth Organic Catering (May 2025 - Present)
Barista — Zibetto Espresso Bar, New York, NY (2015-2017)

Publications

Poulakas, Anna, et al. “WatsHere: A Watson Cognitive System to Navigate Social/Health Resources for Public Schools.” Global Business and Technology Association, Changing Business Environment: Gamechangers, Opportunities and Risks, 2017, pp. 813–823. ISBN: 1-932917-13-6 ISSN: 2520-6486

ReadingsBook-GBATA-2017-Final.pdf

This paper describes the design and implementation of a machine learning app that helped end-users in Bronx public schools easily navigate social/health documents and resources
Utilized IBM Watson to provide curated information for students, parents, and staff of P.S. 85 in the Bronx.
Coordinated with Bronx Bureau President and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Education.
Led technical demos, facilitated gathering of corpus documents, and trained Watson with user query samples.
Published research at GBATA 2017 in Vienna, Austria and received a $30,000 grant from the Bronx Bureau President for the lab to implement our research at P.S. 85.

Click here to download the paper

Click here to read our mention in the Fordham GSE News

Education

Fordham University, Bronx, NY (2014-2018)

Mathematics and Computer & Information Sciences (B.S.), Italian Studies (B.A.)
Relevant Math/CS coursework: Operating Systems, Discrete Structures, Data Structures, Computer Security Systems, Theory of Computation, Statistics, Algorithms, Cognitive Computing, Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus, Differential Equations, Differential Geometry
Relevant Italian coursework: Italian Translation, Italian Language and Literature, Italian Conversation and Comprehension, Italian Survey of Literature, Reading Culture Through Literature, Machiavelli, Italian Opera, Italian Americans on Screen, Magnificence and Power: the Medici and Renaissance Florence