Michal Rachtan is a founder and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building AI-driven software and analytics platforms for enterprise-scale problems. As Founder and CTO of Unit8 and former Tech Lead at Palantir, he blends hands-on systems engineering, data science, and DevOps to deliver production-grade solutions for industries undergoing major transformation. He started and scaled big-data capabilities at Swisscom, processing petabytes of network and spatio-temporal data, and is driven to assemble world-class AI and software talent to tackle hard, high-impact problems. Based in Zurich and educated in electronics and telecommunications, he pairs aesthetic product sensibility with deep technical rigor and a founder’s bias for getting things done.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electronics and Telecommunications, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electronics and Telecommunications at AGH University of Krakow
Leadership for Founders Program, Leadership for Founders Program at IMD
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