Rodrigue Hajjar is the VP of Engineering at Cohere, managing the productionization of LLMs. He and his team are responsible for the deployment, and serving at scale of LLMs on the platform and in customer environments. As a founding engineer at TunnelBear, acquired by McAfee, he’s worked on one of the biggest consumer VPN networks. He’s also developed award winning mobile applications, and has founded a few startups including Kwixer (a content recommendation engine).
Rod holds a Masters in Computer Science, and is based in Toronto.