Alisson Sol is a
hands-on engineering leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, AI, and scaling products
to millions of users at leading technology companies. He has built and managed high-performance
teams delivering applications, services, and frameworks across Computer Vision, Artificial
Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Cybersecurity, and Distributed Systems.
Currently based in the NYC area, Alisson is the co-founder of a stealth startup. He relocated from Seattle to New York in mid-2022 to serve as an Engineering Manager for Google’s Security Fundamentals team, a role he held through December 2023. His career includes two tenures at Microsoft Corporation between 2000 and 2022, spanning various teams in Seattle and Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. At Amazon (2017–2019), he served as Senior Development Manager for AWS WorkSpaces and direct fulfillment teams. Additionally, he spent more than four years as an ERP system architect, more than two years as VP of Software Engineering within the banking and fintech sector, and has contributed to numerous open-source projects. A seasoned entrepreneur, he has co-founded three software companies, published several technical papers, and co-authored multiple patents.
Alisson holds a B.Sc. in Physics and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, along with General Management training from the University of Cambridge. When not coding, he likes to run half-marathons, play soccer, disassemble hardware, put it back to work, and reuse the spare parts elsewhere!
- Email: email at AlissonSol.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/alissonsol
- Social networks: LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram
- Resume: PDF file
- Curriculum Vitae: PDF file
- Google Scholar, Google Patents
- Personal blog and Wordpress mirror
- Random Friday Message website
- Calendar for appointment scheduling
Upcoming events
- Panel participant at 8th Annual Cloud Security - June 1st, 2026, New York City, One WTC
Past presentations
- The way to Edge AI - Mar/2026 - slides - (video for 1ArtificialIntelligence)
- Debugging Your AI Solution - Jun/2025 - slides
- Bad Data In, Years of Useless Analysis - then Purged - Jun/2025 - slides
- Bad Data Analysis - Aug/2024 - slides
- Data, Compute, Network, Power Consumption - Nov/2023 - slides
- DATAnalyze 2021 - Oct/2021 - slides
- Desenvolvimento de Projetos e Sustentação de Produtos (Portuguese) - Sep/2021 - slides
- How to finish the Boston Marathon - Jul/2021 - slides
- AI circa 2018 - Sep/2018 - slides
- Containers demo - Jul/2016 - slides
- Developing a Data-Driven Web Attack Detector - Big Data Security Symposium 2015 - video
- Protect Your Online Services with Big Data and Machine Learning - MSDN Jan/2015 - article
- Using big data and machine learning to protect your online service - TechEd Europe 2014 - slides
- Real-world machine learning: how Kinect gesture recognition works - Build 2013 - slides + video
- Kinect for Windows SDK+Toolkit - Part of CVPR 2013 tutorial - slides
- Machine Learning Applied to Device Scenarios - Microsoft Devices Summit 2013 - slides
- Computer Vision in Kinect for Windows - SIBGRAPI 2012 - slides + video
- Optimizing Release Cadence: Metrics and Research - Nov/2011 - slides
- Fundamentals of Distributed Systems - Jun/2011 - slides
- Pragmatic Security - May/2011 - slides
- Reusing your knowledge (in Portuguese) - Mar/2010 - slides
- Debugging your mindset - NxtGenUG - Jun/2009 - slides
- Doing Software in Large Software Companies - NxtGenUG - Mar/2009 - slides
- Invited Speaker: AutoCollage: From Paper to Product - SIBGRAPI 2008 - slides + AutoCollage 2008 Team video
- Tutorial A Service-Oriented Application for an Enterprise Datacentre - slides
- Digital TV: The Software Components - SIBGRAPI 2007 - slides + Part 1 Video
- SBTVD and Microsoft TV Technologies - SIBGRAPI 2006 - slides
- XQuery and XPath - SBLP 2005 - slides
- Applying academic knowledge in the Software Industry - SBLP 2005 - slides
- .NET 2.0 Programming - SBLP 2005 - slides
Academic work
- A metamodel for distributed multimedia processing systems development - pdf
- "PhotoPix: Uma plataforma para sistemas de processamento digital de imagens orientada para objetos" (in Portuguese) - pdf
- "PhotoPix: an Object-Oriented Framework for Digital Image Processing Systems - pdf - Conference proceedings
- Google Scholar, Google Patents
The Client Info test page.
The Bacamarte site
Instagram pictures: alisson.a.sol
Music by Alici