Résumé

Smoothing the transition to ubiquitous AI and robotics.

• Help boards and start-ups make informed AI and robotics bets: separating durable shifts from hype, assessing technical risk, and translating emerging capabilities into strategy
• Run an independent weak-signals practice tracking early indicators of change in AI and computing, published at yoroger.com/signals
• Advisor and mentor in the Innovate Bay founder network, working directly with early-stage founders to refine their vision and scale

Led the full technology pipeline for Intuit's Futures group, translating emerging technology and behavior shifts into strategic customer benefits. Managed teams of 2–60 across AI research, emerging technology, and strategic innovation. Highest-level individual contributor at the company.

• Founded Intuit's first AI research group, assembling a team of data scientists with an unprecedented mandate to publish at refereed conferences and establishing the company's AI research reputation
• Drove early exploration of large language models (starting with GPT-2) and AI agents years before mainstream enterprise adoption, positioning Intuit as an early mover in applied LLM research
• Built production-ready POCs that de-risked emerging technologies and accelerated enterprise AI adoption, often resulting in production code delivery

• Created an entirely new practice for identifying global signals of technology and behavior change, regularly briefing the C-suite and directly influencing company strategy
• Built an interactive AI simulation (using Claude Code) for the annual CTO staff offsite: executives played small business owners in a marketplace where AI workers gradually displaced humans, viscerally demonstrating the tragedy of the commons in AI job displacement and changing executive thinking on AI's societal impact
• Oversaw early-stage exploration and investment across LLMs, AI agents, wearable tech, IoT, physical AI, quantum computing, and cryptocurrency/stablecoins

• Brought responsible AI to Intuit (2018) by leveraging external speakers and cross-industry events to build executive support; later reformed the program in 2025 when it impeded innovation, creating safe experimentation frameworks that balanced guardrails with velocity
• Shaped Intuit's cryptocurrency strategy; brought in Coinbase's CEO as an external speaker (2015), inspiring engineers to build a QuickBooks bitcoin payment capability, while maintaining a clear-eyed view of blockchain's limitations
• Launched an external speaker series (NextTalks, with hundreds of attendees per event) and a TechRadar program that evolved into company-wide practices for monitoring emerging technology

• Developed Content Centric Networking prototypes (a novel technology with the potential to replace the Internet Protocol) using EC2 and local testbeds; introduced a hardware component (~10TB switch) that moved the research from software-only to a deployment-ready system
• Technology subsequently acquired by Cisco, validating the commercial potential of the research

Headed the Office of the CTO, leading a group aimed at introducing new ideas during a critical period of strategic transformation.

• Oversaw applied research across computer vision, robotics, digital healthcare, automotive, embedded systems, and IoT, defining the research agenda and translating exploratory work toward product impact
• Spearheaded an internal VC-style innovation marketplace enabling employees to pitch projects and managers to competitively fund them, driving grassroots innovation across a $20B company

Dual role: directed research groups creating technologies to influence Sun and the industry, while managing operations across all of Sun Labs.

• Created SunSPOTs, a novel wireless sensor platform, from concept to worldwide production (25,000+ units in 34 countries). Operated as a startup inside Sun; the team built the entire system from scratch: hardware, OS, Java VM, tools, apps, and service. All open source. Helped launch the Maker movement; the Java VM was adopted for FIRST robotics competitions
• Directed research spanning yotta-byte scale distributed storage, open source DRM, and early VoIP telephony
• Managed operations for a world-class research institution: 200+ researchers, 7 websites, 6 physical labs, and the intern program, maintaining a 25:1 flat hierarchy for maximum efficiency