Meet the Team
Todd Deshane
I help learners at AI Makerspace overcome any friction or challenges so they can focus on the core content of building, shipping, and sharing. In addition, I'm actively a Software Engineer at IBM Research.
Q: Where are you from? What's your origin story?
I grew up near Potsdam, NY and met my wife at Clarkson University and we moved to the Albany, NY area.
I have a son with intelligence from another world and a daughter who is extremely kind and has her own YouTube channel(opens in new tab) where she uses AI to make Minecraft mods and plays them. Visit her at chelseaplays.com.
Q: Can you share a hidden talent or hobby, or something you do for fun?
My passion for helping people with AI is just a means to eventually being able to retire early and be an advisor at my daughter's castle.
Todd Deshane
1:1 Support Lead
"Being effective today means doing something hands-on and making it useful to someone as soon as possible."
Q: Can you share about any other accomplishments in your career?
As a DevOps Engineer at Excelsior College, I collaborated between system administrators and application developers to improve the build and deployment process. I learned how everything works and how to work with many different people and brought the ability to solve anything with anyone to AI Makerspace.
As a Software Engineer at IBM Research, I work on the cutting edge of AI and hardware and bring the ability to work at the intersection of what's possible to what's useful for hard AI problems to AI Makerspace conversations