Team
The people behind every stage
Twelve people take enterprise AI from an open question to a shipped, governed production system: Shaun Applegate-Swanson and Mark Cicoria as BridgeTek's VPs of Data Science and Software Engineering, plus ten data scientists, researchers and senior AI engineers they have worked with previously, who deliver our services as consultants. The same people staff every stage.
Who delivers the work
- avg experience per person
- 15+ years
- publications
- 39
- citations
- 837
- in research funding led
- $5.8M+
- U.S. citizens
- 100%
What each of them brings
One line for each of the twelve people introduced above:
- Standing up a data science function from zero
- AI infrastructure and platform engineering
- Deep tech, quantum, and R&D credibility in the room
- Fluency at the prototype stage of a sales cycle and in production code
- Transforming an existing engineering org into an agent-native one
- Production hardening and security architecture
- Evaluation frameworks, entity resolution, trust & safety at platform scale
- GenAI capability transferred to your team
- Staff-level product engineering and risk-managed migration
- Data strategy, governance and change management that lands
- Energy, utilities, and data science teams that ship production code
- Research rigor and complexity science
After a discovery call, we match one or two of these forward-deployed experts to your specific problem — named, and ready to meet directly.
Some of them also publish their research in BridgeTek Labs: meet the Lab authors.
We bring the best
- Careers built at
- Microsoft
- Meta
- X/Twitter
- Lyft
- Goldman Sachs
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Carnegie Mellon SEI
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- IBM Quantum Network
- Degrees and affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon
- Stanford
- UC Berkeley
- Harvard
- NYU
- NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
- DARPA
A sample of their work
Five examples of shipped work:
Financial services
Agentic compliance automation: a multi-agent system automating a fraud and sanctions investigation workflow for a large financial institution.
Energy & utilities
Bottom-up ML forecasting pipeline for a state grid-electrification study, findings submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission.
Trust & safety
7.5 years building ML detection systems for spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior at X/Twitter, then cross-platform at Meta.
Applied research
Principal investigator on a $5.8M DoD-funded evaluation of quantum algorithm advantage at Carnegie Mellon, via the IBM Quantum Network.
GPU infrastructure
GPU cloud observability platform built end to end (scheduler, GPU and node health, fabric, storage, tracing unified into one multi-tenant platform) on production infrastructure already carrying customers, off a legacy monitoring stack. First production release in 2 weeks against a hard external deadline, with no window in which the fleet went unseen.
Shipped work by the team, before and since BridgeTek.
Leadership
Every member of our leadership team is an industry veteran.
Richard Sexton
Co-Founder and CEO
Twenty-five years in enterprise technology and category creation. Took CloudPhysics through its acquisition by HPE.
Casey DeCarlo
Co-Founder and Chief Alliance Officer
Twenty-three years of alliance leadership, a decade inside Dell, and the partner strategy this runs on.
Anthony Racca
Vice President of Sales
Twenty-eight years in enterprise technology, with Fortune 200, WWT and Dell depth.
Josh Krasnegor
Vice President of Marketing
Twenty-five years in technology marketing and channel programs. Thirteen years leading marketing at FusionStorm, through its acquisition by Computacenter.
Tory Skyers
Vice President of Technology
Thirty-two years in infrastructure, thirteen at WWT, leading financial-grade and enterprise AI systems.
Shaun Applegate-Swanson
Vice President of Data Science
Thirteen years in data science. First data scientist at three VC-backed startups, all three acquired — CloudPhysics to HPE, CloudKnox to Microsoft, Radius to Kabbage.
Mark Cicoria
Vice President of Software Engineering
Twenty-one years building software, five at the U.S. Department of Energy. Built the observability platform for a GPU cloud provider.