Yaddy Arroyo — Co-Founder
I hold 13 multimodal AI patents. Not as a credential to hang on a wall, but as proof that I’ve been living inside the hardest problems at the intersection of human cognition and machine intelligence for over a decade. I am an AI inventor, experience strategist, and knowledge systems thinker. I design the way humans talk to machines and the way machines learn to understand us back. My work spans: → Conversational & Voice AI: VUI design, NLU architecture, hallucination handling, sound/haptic conditionals, and the human factors that make or break voice-first experiences at scale. → Knowledge Engineering & Semantic Systems: ontologies, data enrichment, and the frameworks that make AI actually reliable rather than just probabilistic. Most people building AI right now are skipping this layer. I’m not. → AI Product Strategy: translating bleeding-edge AI capability into real products that real humans use, trust, and come back to. I’ve done this at two major US financial institutions at VP level → Human-Centered Data: former data scientist (SPSS) turned experience strategist. I understand what lives inside a data pipeline and what it means for the person on the other end of the screen. I’ve spent years designing in high-stakes, high-constraint environments, regulated industries, enterprise scale, cross-functional politics, and all. I’ve shipped. I’ve patented. I’ve led without a title and influenced without authority. I also run a community for AI/UX practitioners and advise on AI-enabled wearables in the health ecosystem — because good thinking doesn’t stop at 5pm. Empathy is not a weakness. It’s the most precise instrument we have. If you’re building something at the edge of human-machine interaction and you need someone who understands both the philosophy and the plumbing — let’s talk.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and AI specialist with a strong focus on user experience design.
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Experience: 19 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Ai Design
- Conversational User Interfaces (cui)
- Product Leadership
- Communication
- Creativity And Innovation
- Human Computer Interaction
Career Highlights
- Invented 13 multimodal AI patents.
- Led Voice UX strategy for a major US bank.
- Expert in human-machine interaction design.
Work Experience
Self-employed
Experience architecture advisor (2 yrs 2 mos)
Confidential
VP | Voice User Interface Designer, Principal (4 yrs 5 mos)
Bank of America
VP / Sr. Product Designer - Enterprise payments (Mobile) (3 yrs 8 mos)
Really bad polymath
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Lextech Global Services
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Manifest Digital
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Senior Principal Consultant (6 yrs 11 mos)
The Bravo Group
Digital Experience Planner (2 yrs 2 mos)
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Sr. Associate: e-Business (1 yr 6 mos)
Sr. Associate: Partnership Marketing (11 mos)
Education
MBA at Walden University
Completed Professional Improvisation Program at Annoyance Theater
Second City Conservatory at The Second City
Completed Professional Improvisation Programme at iO Chicago
B.A at The University of Texas at San Antonio
BBA at The University of Texas at San Antonio
BBA at The University of Texas at San Antonio
