# Christian D. Balevski > Founder | Innovator | Educator Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christiandbalevski Former founder/CEO specializing in AI & ML with a strong track record of creating innovative tech solutions, leading interdisciplinary teams, and communicating complex concepts effectively. Leveraging my expertise in solving complex problems to drive advancement in the AI space. ## Work Experience ### Director, Software Engineer, Innovation and Emerging Technology @ Prudential Financial Jan 2023 – Present Leading advancements in Generative AI and other emerging techonologies. ### Director, Entrepreneurship Program @ The Frisch School Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 - Successfully designed and implemented a four-year entrepreneurship curriculum, including an AI module for juniors, that integrated theoretical principles with hands-on, project-based learning experiences to deliver a comprehensive education for students. - Effectively taught the program to over 200 students, increasing enrollment by roughly 50% each year, and demonstrating exceptional leadership skills in managing and delivering engaging and hands-on content to students. - Organized and led the program’s annual Entrepreneurship Demo Day, attracting roughly 500 attendees each of the last two years. ### Founder & CEO @ Knowledgine, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 - Built a new type of academic content distribution platform used at top universities such as Princeton and Fordham. - Developed and deployed state-of-the-art speech-to-text and topic extraction systems using Python and NLP to understand the context of human speech. System delivered results up to 30X faster than comparable commercial systems (AWS, Google, IBM). - Assembled and led a team of developers, designers, business professionals, and academics to accomplish both short-term and long-term goals, driving the product from research to commercialization. ### Math, Physics, Economics Teacher @ Fusion Academy Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### Founder & Lead Engineer @ Solar Divide Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Developed an innovative retrofit solution for large-scale solar farms, increasing energy output and efficiency; built a working prototype and won 1st place in The College of New Jersey’s $50,000 Annual Business Plan Competition. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Applied Physics New York University ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Finance & Physics (Dual Degrees) The College of New Jersey ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christian-balevski --- Source: https://flows.cv/christiandbalevski JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christiandbalevski/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05