About Me
Hi, my name is Richard Mathews II 
My career mission is to apply AI to solve complex problems that have scalable benefits for society. Currently, my ambition is to be a change agent that transforms chemical production with artificial intelligence to make plant operations safer and more efficient.
🌟 My broad exposure to cloud deployment, data science, and product strategy makes me uniquely qualified to connect the dots between technical execution and business strategy, ensuring impactful and feasible solutions.
I’m optimistic about the potential of AI to improve the world, but I also know this will only happen if we, as scientists and engineers, ensure its development benefits the common good. I’m committed to playing my part in that effort by acting as a change agent with two key skillsets:
- Technical competency in bringing state-of-the-art AI technologies into productive solutions
- Strategic abilities such as aligning development with business value, driving user adoption, and persuading people to invest money in, collaborate on, and/or support AI projects.
My career has been shaped by a strong commitment to developing scalable, AI-based solutions that can democratize the benefits of this technology in practical, meaningful ways. My leadership style centers on fostering collaboration, inspiring others, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with technical creativity.
As a T-shaped data scientist, I have deep skills in the data science discipline with a broad set of supplementary skills spanning product strategy, architecture and software design, ML engineering, and cloud deployment. My experience includes:
- Leading the full product lifecycle, from problem identification and solution design to product-market fit and securing stakeholder buy-in.
- Designing microservice architectures, building data and ML pipelines in the cloud, and deploying ML models using various design patterns.
- Understanding the mathematics of engineering domains and applying the appropriate data science techniques.
Feel free to contact me for a one-on-one discussion about the field of AI.