Emil Mikhailov

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

Work

Cribl: Staff Product Manager

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

  • 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 SoCal

I live in Southern California, with my wife Anna and my son Michael.

Let's Connect

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