Stop reading about AI.
Start using it.

David holds a PhD in Computer Science and is an Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University, where he teaches AI and serves on the university’s Computer Science dissertation committee for AI-focused doctoral research. He is the founder of Anansi Technology LLC, an AI-first technology company building at the intersection of AI and financial infrastructure.

In his day job, David is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at American Express, where he leads enterprise AI safety — building production LLM-as-judge classifiers, prompt-injection detection systems, and AI vulnerability assessment frameworks that protect tens of thousands of colleagues across the firm's AI tools. His evaluations directly inform which AI systems the enterprise trusts in production.

His path to AI ran through hardware. David began his career as a chip design engineer at Intel, building the silicon that computing runs on, before moving into software and financial technology. That full-stack perspective — from transistors to large language models — is what makes his teaching different: he doesn't just show you which buttons to press, he explains what's actually happening underneath.

David is a builder first and a teacher second. Kairo exists because the professionals he meets — in his classroom, at work, in his network — keep asking the same question: not “what is AI,” but “how do I actually use it in my job?” Most programs don't answer that. Kairo does.