Brad Flaugher

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Professional Summary

I operate as a high-impact advisor and hands-on builder for AI-native products, agent harness design and implementation, and secure platform architecture. With a multi-disciplinary toolkit spanning code, data, commerce, economic insight, and historical context, I design composable systems that move from strategy to production quickly. No fluff: focused problem-solving, fast iteration, and durable execution with teams that need results.

Education

Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
General Management Program (GMP) | 2023 (Featured on Wharton Executive Education Podcast)
MIT Sloan School of Management
Executive Certificate in Technology and Operations | 2022 (Profiled by MIT)
London School of Economics
MSc Economic History | 2010
Kalamazoo College
BA in Computer Science and Economics | 2009 (Founder of Endowed Complex Systems Scholarship)

Professional Experience

Elcano β€” Chief Technology Officer | 2025–Present
  • Set technology strategy and shipped agentic infrastructure for supply-side curation, translating programmatic advertising workflows into autonomous, auditable systems for deal analysis, reporting, activation, and optimization.
  • Built the Victoria agent stack: Go-based orchestration, pull-based task runners, ephemeral Podman execution, one-shot and multi-turn agent runtimes, MCP tool integrations, and persistent execution history designed to minimize inbound attack surface.
  • Standardized a composable, multi-modal architecture that decouples persona, prompts, protocols, and skills from runtime targets across Elcano infrastructure, chat, voice, and virtual API deployments.
  • Led agent harness design and implementation engagements for publicly traded ad-tech companies, including platform-agnostic integrations across SSPs, data warehouses, email/reporting pipelines, and browser-only vendor workflows. Visit elcanotek.com to learn more.
Inoxoft β€” Chief Technology Officer | 2018–2025
  • Negotiated Bread Factory merger and became CTO for the combined firm.
  • Integrated a 100-person engineering organization and scaled to 240 engineers across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, including structured ML bootcamp programs.
  • Served enterprise and startup clients, including Procter & Gamble advertising pipeline optimization with 40 % BigQuery cost reduction and ReFuelrs on-demand fuel delivery product design (Case Study).
Audigent (Acquired by Experian) β€” Embedded AI/ML Lead | 2020–2023
Seconded from my role as CTO of Inoxoft; remained CTO throughout the engagement.
  • Owned ML stack processing billions of user events; sub-10 ms models powered real-time bidding.
  • Scaled infra across thousands of servers; optimized AWS allocation.
Bread Factory Studios (Acquired by Inoxoft) β€” Founder | 2015–2018
  • Founded data-focused software firm leading IoT and Machine Learning projects, establishing foundational technologies and client relationships.
  • Successfully negotiated a strategic merger with Inoxoft, aligning technical and client teams under one platform.
RedCurrent (Series A Exit - Founder Buyout) β€” Product Development Lead | 2014–2015
  • Successfully standardized and automated scraping of events from thousands of sites to consolidate web calendars into a single platform, featured in Star Tribune, with development teams spanning the US and Asia.
  • Departed after early founder buyout concurrent with successful Series A funding.
Offline Magazine (Acquihired by RedCurrent) β€” Co-Founder | 2013–2014
  • Co-founded audio-text hybrid platform achieving 250K downloads in first month; created writer-centric revenue model featured in TechCrunch.
Earlier Experience β€” 2006–2013
  • Executed $50 M daily algorithmic trades at Walleye Capital while developing proprietary trading algorithms.
  • Published computational neuroscience research in Journal of Cognitive Neurodynamics while at RMKI Research Institute.
  • Performed security audit work for Fortune 500 clients at BDO LLP.

Skills

Agent Harness Design & Implementation

End-to-end agent harness implementation β€’ agent loop design β€’ MCP and skill systems β€’ human review patterns β€’ rapid production prototyping

Secure Platform Architecture

Composable microservices β€’ rootless containers β€’ pull-based runners β€’ least-privilege deployment β€’ system resilience and hardening

AI Systems & Data Integration

Multi-model orchestration β€’ OpenAI-compatible providers β€’ SSP and warehouse integrations β€’ virtual APIs β€’ automated reporting pipelines

Product & Innovation Strategy

Product-market fit validation β€’ market testing and analysis β€’ AI adoption strategy β€’ cost-minimized build/buy decisions β€’ executive advising

Innovation Leadership

  • Published AI Harmony (2023), endorsed by leaders from YouTube, Wharton School, and Silver Lake.
  • Maintain public agent infrastructure repos including LFG (Go terminal agent with rootless Podman task sandboxes), LFA (scheduled automation dashboard), LFE (privacy-first Android agent), and box (Fedora agent runtime image).
  • Member, Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative, and lifetime member, ACM.