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Meet our Advisors: Pete Turner

By Tucker Wilson posted Sun September 22, 2024 08:32 PM

  
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Pete Turner is the Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Opollo Technologies. Pete has been programming in Silicon Valley since he was 14 years old. He worked at Microsoft for several years before founding and working at multiple startups. His most recent position before Opollo Technologies was as a Staff Technical Lead Manager developing Augmented Reality SDKs for Escher Reality (acquired by Niantic). Pete was at Escher Reality (and then Niantic) from working with three people in a basement, through the acquisition, and eventually hiring for and managing multiple teams. In particular, Pete managed teams working on real-time AR Services, AR Mapping, AR Operating Systems, and Machine Learning. He is one of the best software engineers and technologists in our Circle of Advisors. Pete’s work with IBM Cloud products and services has been invaluable to our program, as we gain key insights into our clients’ goals and needs. With his deep expertise in numerous software engineering disciplines, Pete has helped us prepare our security services for the new challenges introduced by AI.

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