Dan Ott

Dan Ott is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nyckel, a Y Combinator-backed enterprise machine learning platform. His technical background spans several decades of software development, beginning in the early 1980s when he initially wrote applications for the Intel 286 processor. Prior to establishing his current artificial intelligence startup, Ott held various software engineering and technical leadership positions at prominent technology companies including Block and CareEvolution. At Nyckel, he oversees a team of fewer than 25 employees generating under $5 million in annual revenue, providing custom machine learning classification and model testing solutions for sectors including retail, eCommerce, and the Internet of Things. His current professional focus centers on scaling business-to-business software organizations and building accessible artificial intelligence infrastructure that allows enterprises to deploy custom machine learning models without requiring specialized engineering degrees.