Rob Marano
President And CEO at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Darien, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolRob Marano is a technology executive and founder with 11 years of recent experience helping enterprises operationalize Edge and AI across retail, manufacturing, energy, transportation, and logistics. He builds pragmatic, product-led solutions that preserve data sovereignty—founding Konsilix to close the “adoption gap” with a Data-in-Place KnoSo AI suite that routes queries to analytics or LLMs to eliminate hallucinations. Previously he led AWS ProServe’s Global IoT Edge practice and prepared Google’s Distributed Cloud Connected for retail-scale adoption, combining deep engineering discipline with GTM and sales enablement. An adjunct professor in electrical and computer engineering, he pairs hands-on distributed systems and CPU/GPU architecture teaching with board-level program curation for senior tech leaders. He’s repeatedly bridged startups and hyperscale clouds (founder/CTO roles, PwC/EMC exits, and major roles at AWS and Google), which makes him equally fluent in product strategy, field delivery, and secure on-prem/cloud hybrid architectures. Based in Darien, CT, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor, operational sales experience, and patented smart-city energy work to enterprise AI and edge transformation.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSEE, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtBCT, Physics, BCT, Physics at United States Air Force AcademyNational Honors Society, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, National Honors Society, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Archbishop Molloy High SchoolMSE, Electrical Engineering, MSE, Electrical Engineering at University of PennsylvaniaPhysics, Physics, Physics, Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, Italian, German, Japanese
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Github Skills (52)
bash9
aws-iot-core9
aws-iot9
vagrant9
virtualization8
git8
ruby7
java-programming7
automation7
macos6
css6
python6
matlab6
compiler-errors6
sublime-text6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
robmarano/robmarano.github.io
Aug 2020 - May 2026
Rob Marano's GitHub Pages Repo
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 312 pushes in 5 years 9 months
jekyll
robmarano/ece465_at_cooper
Jan 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 release, 42 pushes, 14 branches in 5 years 1 month
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