Serj is co-founder and CTO of Exia Labs, and is a leading applied AI x Games Engineer. He has working in the data, ML, and AI domain for a decade. Serj's career followed the growth trajectory of the data industry, going from managing data ecosystems and writing MapReduce all the way to integrating ML & AI into games today. Most recently, he was a Principal Engineer where he served as Tech Lead of ML & Data for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics and Wild Rift. There, he shipped things like ML bots, in-game recommendation systems, MMR systems, player behavior detection systems, and more. He has also developed two data & MLops ecosystems at two different companies, together reaching a scale of petabytes of stored data and terabytes of data being moved per day. He graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.