Deasil Cognitive Appoints Craig Johnston CTO and Board Member

Nov 13, 2018

Microservices and algorithm expert to lead software design and development at AI-based data analytics & blockchain company

GLENDALE, CA, USA - November 12, 2018 /MarketersMedia/ —

Deasil Cognitive, which offers a revolutionary Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Blockchain technology, has appointed Craig Johnston its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Johnston will also serve on the company’s Board of Directors. He brings a wealth of experience in technology and an expertise in microservices as well as AI and algorithms to the role.

“We’ve entrusted Craig with an absolutely critical mission, which is to lead our technology development efforts,” said Jeff Maud, COO of Deasil Cognitive. “His mandate is to create exceptional, advanced software applications and outstanding customer experiences for Deasil Cognitive.”

Johnston has led software development and creative engineering teams in a variety of technology management positions over the last 20 years. His work has often focused on collecting, analyzing, moving, buffering, queuing, processing or presenting data in significant and novel ways. In addition to microservices, artificial intelligence and algorithms, Johnston has also worked in the fields of building engines, machine reasoning and blockchain technologies. At Deasil Cognitive, he will leverage Kubernetes, Docker, Golang, Cassandra, Kafka and Elastic.

The Deasil Cognitive platform performs Machine Reasoning, Natural Language Processing and Blockchain on an on-demand basis. It features a microservices architecture which enables it to be flexible, scalable and high-performing. Use cases include mining medical records for diagnostic insights, learning from devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) to give actionable insights in real time to key decision makers as well as giving a health risk score to IOT devices to reduce exposure to cyber threats using the Deasil Blockchain technology.

For more Information, visit https://deasilcognitive.com/

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