Tom Piaggio
Ex-Googler. CTO at Autonoma, where we're building QA agents that navigate websites and mobile apps, find bugs, and alert you before users do.
Previously at Google as an AI engineer, working with Fortune 500 companies on recommendation engines, multi-model deployments, and airgapped LLM systems in demilitarized zones.
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