Emil Mikhailov
"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
Work
Cribl: Staff Product Manager
- Building Cribl Search, a federated search engine for machine data at rest.
- Insights and more details can be found in my Cribl blog posts (opens in a new tab).
XIX.ai: Founder and CEO
- Former founder and CEO of XIX.ai, I led the development of Entry, a cutting-edge, sensorless biometric SSO for the Web. Immensely proud of our team's achievement in creating state-of-the-art facial recognition and anti-spoofing models for authentication. Explore the technical details here (opens in a new tab).
- Raised over $5M, backed by Y Combinator (W2017), Two Bear Capital, CabraVC and fantastic group of angel investors.
Personal Pursuits and Interests
- I've been passionate about building software and coding for over a decade. My interest in deep learning and reinforcement learning started long before they hit the mainstream.
- Contributed to tackling human trafficking and child exploitation. Highlighted in Business Insider (opens in a new tab).
Aviation & Innovation
- Lifelong space and aviation enthusiast. Recently became a pilot and working on building a plane. More to come. Love to bend the metal as much as I love to build software.
Life in NorCal
I live in Northern California, with my wife Anna and my son Michael.
Let's Connect
- Twitter (opens in a new tab)
- LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
- Email: emil mikhailov at gmail dot com