Summary
Tony Ojeda is a Principal AI Data Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience building practical AI, data science, and analytics solutions across startups and enterprise environments. He has led and scaled data teams as EVP of Data Science & AI and founded District Data Labs to deliver measurable business impact—optimizing inventory, forecasting, and decision systems that saved millions and improved forecast accuracy. Tony blends technical depth in applied NLP and vectorization (contributing to projects like foxbook/atap on web scraping, social media ingestion, and Gensim-based vectorization) with strategic leadership in generative AI, RAG, and prompt engineering. He co-founded a major regional data community, growing it from local meetups into a multi-group organization of over 15,000 members, demonstrating aptitude for community building and education. Based in Wake Forest, NC, his background in finance and an MBA informs a pragmatic, ROI-focused approach to AI adoption and productization. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous data problems into repeatable, production-ready systems that senior stakeholders trust.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Strategy Execution & Valuation; and Entrepreneurship, MBA Strategy Execution & Valuation; and Entrepreneurship at DePaul University
MS Finance, MS Finance at Florida International University