MICHAEL ZEPHYR

TECHNICAL MARKETING ENGINEER MANAGER

MedTech / Physical AI for Healthcare / Medical AI / Medical Imaging

Leads NVIDIA Healthcare's developer experience function: the team that owns how developers engage with everything under the MedTech portfolio.

• Owns the developer experience across the MedTech portfolio: how developers discover, learn, and build with open models, medical imaging, Holoscan, and Isaac for Healthcare, taking every NVIDIA-wide horizontal and making it demoable at the healthcare vertical.
• Driving how the stack gets used in the agent era: structured developer surfaces (AGENTS.md, layered SKILL.md hierarchies across MONAI, Holoscan, and Isaac for Healthcare) so coding agents can navigate, compose, and ship against the platform.
• Showcases the portfolio's open foundation models (reasoning, segmentation, generation, and vision-language) to the global medical research community through the docs, demos, READMEs, Hugging Face Spaces, and talks that put state-of-the-art research in developers' hands.

TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER

Owned product strategy and microservices architecture for MONAI as it matured into an enterprise-grade medical-imaging AI platform.

• Launched the first 2 MONAI / Medical AI NVIDIA NIMs, productionizing medical-imaging models as enterprise inference microservices.
• Set the platform roadmap and led engineering collaboration on enterprise MONAI deployments.
• Drove microservices architecture decisions for medical-imaging AI workloads in clinical environments.
• Translated research advances into shippable platform features with the engineering team.

TECHNICAL MARKETING ENGINEER / AI EVANGELIST

Built MONAI's developer community from day one into a global open-source standard for medical-imaging AI.

• Grew MONAI to 9,000,000+ downloads as the open-source standard for medical-imaging AI.
• Seeded the ecosystem behind 5,000+ published papers citing MONAI in clinical and research work.
• Trained 10,000+ developers through workshops, bootcamps, and partner programs.
• Built a YouTube presence reaching 250,000 views, 20,000 watch-hours, and 5,500 subscribers.
• Ran the conference talks and community programs that brought new contributors onto the platform.

AI DEVELOPER EVANGELIST

Taught AI to developers around the world, rotating each year through Intel's Enterprise, IoT, and Higher Education organizations.

• Lead instructor across Intel's developer-facing AI training catalog, reaching engineering teams worldwide.
• Authored core AI curriculum spanning CNNs, NLP, Reinforcement Learning, XGBoost, and IoT-adjacent inference.
• Delivered keynotes and technical sessions on emerging AI techniques at conferences, workshops, and partner events worldwide.
• Built academic AI curricula in partnership with third-party publishers.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Shipped core platform systems on the Intel XDK, Intel's cross-platform HTML5/JavaScript IDE for hybrid mobile-app development.

• Built the App Designer, Intel XDK's visual UI builder for cross-platform mobile apps.
• Led the project system, notification system, and project-build coordination across both backend and UI.
• Owned version control and the update-patch system that handled migrations between toolset versions.