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title: "Professional Experience — Daniel Herrington"
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# Professional Experience — Daniel Herrington

## Chief AI Officer (CAIO) — The Zebra (2026 – Present)
- Leads artificial intelligence product strategy, machine learning engineering, and data science for the nation's leading insurance comparison marketplace ([thezebra.com](https://thezebra.com)).
- Directs custom multi-agent architectures, model fine-tuning, contextual insurance recommendation engines, and agent-to-agent (A2A) commerce readiness.
- Built enterprise-wide AI governance, auditability, and safety guardrail frameworks.

## Senior Product Manager, CoreML & AI Infrastructure — Google (Before 2026)
- Led product for the CoreML frameworks team and critical serving infrastructure for Google's Gemini models in collaboration with DeepMind and Google Research.
- Co-authored the landmark research paper *ML Productivity Goodput in LLM Training* ([arXiv:2502.06982](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06982)) analyzing non-overlapped computation in warehouse-scale TPU/GPU clusters.
- Co-authored and launched the open-source Google AI-Hypercomputer Goodput measurement library ([GoogleCloudPlatform/ai-hypercomputer](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/ai-hypercomputer)).

## Product & Engineering Leadership — Vroom, Capital One, Priceline (2012 – 2024)
- Over a decade designing, operating, and scaling high-volume transactional marketplaces, machine learning personalization systems, and experimentation engines.
- Co-founded two venture-backed technology startups; led a consumer product launch that reached #3 in the App Store and served over 500,000 customers on its opening weekend.

## Education — Mississippi State University
- **B.S. in Electrical Engineering**: Concentration in signals and systems, control systems, and computational frameworks.