Alex Mathews is a leading innovator and technology leader with more than 12 years of experience in Unsupervised ML and AI, functional design, full-stack development, project management, agile methodology, DevOps, hiring and management of programmers, and proficiency across a multitude of programming languages and environments – leading development from concept to commercially launched successful products, whether consumer mobile apps, SaaS businesses, e-commerce or interactive content. At Podopolo, Alex has led the innovation of six proprietary technologies, including its sophisticated AI-powered recommendation engine, podcast ingest engine for automatic and instant delivery of 6mm+ podcasts in all languages and genres, creator economy tools, social interactivity, live interactive video streaming, and much more. Previously he was the CTO of Belouga, an interactive and gamified education platform, where he led development of a multi-party video-conferencing app with live streaming, real-time language translation and transcription for live video, AI-powered analytics system of user input for content suggestions, subject categorization and sentiment analysis for 3,500+ schools in over 100 countries, with a user base of 33,000+ teachers and students worldwide.