# machine61
> Engineering and strategic advisory delivering mission-critical data, AI, quantum computing, and embedded systems for defense, insurance, legal, and manufacturing.

## About
machine61 LLC is an engineering and strategic advisory firm based in and around the greater New York City metro area. We build and deploy next-generation systems at any scale, including petabyte and exabyte data platforms, machine learning and AI business systems, and embedded devices and software running in austere, hostile environments. We work with organizations where failure isn't an option.

## What We Do
- **Data & AI**: Enterprise-scale data architecture, integration, machine learning, analytics, and AI implementation. AI readiness and/or adoption assessments. Petabyte and exabyte data systems. Data strategy, data quality, and data products. Data warehousing.
- **Quantum Computing**: Quantum readiness and/or adoption assessments, post-quantum cryptography migration, signal processing, and early adoption strategies for defense and commercial applications.
- **Embedded & IoT**: Real-time embedded software and firmware, safety-critical systems (DO-178C, MIL-STD), low-power devices for austere environments.
- **Robotics & Autonomous Systems**: Swarm coordination, unmanned platforms, human-machine teaming, edge AI.

## Industries
### Defense
Systems for hostile, denied, and austere environments. Embedded software, secure data architectures, quantum readiness, and autonomous systems. We build systems that work when nothing else does.

### Insurance
Underwriting and risk assessment, claims automation, fraud detection, document intelligence, customer experience, and regulatory compliance. We integrate and unify data, streamline processes, and bring intelligence to legacy systems.

### Legal
Document review and eDiscovery, contract analysis, legal research automation, workflow automation, IP claims drafting, and prior art search. AI that lets lawyers practice law instead of pushing paper.

### Manufacturing
Quality and defect prevention, root cause analysis, predictive maintenance, OT/IT integration, production planning, and supply chain optimization. We integrate data and processes from ERP to PLC and back again. We connect the shop floor to the C-suite.

## Team
- **Sal Magnone** — Founder, Director of Data, AI, and Quantum Engineering. Veteran. 30+ years engineering experience. Co-founded companies in ML/insurance and defense embedded systems. Former PwC, Sia Partners, Gigaspaces, US Army.
- **Nicole Tedesco** — Robotics SME. Former Boeing Phantom Works, Microsoft, ARCA. Expert in robotics deployment and robotics-as-a-service.
- **Alex Cone** — Mobile Applications SME. Former NASA (Space Shuttle program), NeXT, Apple (iTunes Store). Speaker on enterprise mobile development and security.
- **Meiling Zhang** — Quantum Engineering SME. Founder of a quantum computing company focused on defense signal processing. Former IBM, Angry Robot Labs, lab347.

## Clients
Fincantieri, AIG, Voya Financial, Valley Bank, SS&C Intralinks, Invidi Technologies, Medici, Namakina, Friended.

## Key Case Studies & Outcomes
- [Fincantieri](https://www.fincantieri.com): **Defense** Designed, developed, and deployed high-value defense-specific embedded software on applicable milspec hardware for use in harsh, austere, zero-failure conditions.
- [Voya Financial](https://voya.com): **Financial Services** **Insurance** Delivered an enterprise data platform desiloing and integrating all of Voya's legacy mainframe data, deployed across three mainframe instances, into a single data lake and data warehouse platform. Oversaw all data mapping, schema creation, planning, and coordination with a combined team of about 100.
- [Valley Bank](https://www.valley.com): **Financial Services** **Banking** Designed and deployed Valley's Master Data Management (MDM) and Reference Data architecture and systems; mapped their legacy mainframe and transactional data to the new MDM system's data schema.
- [SS&C Intralinks](https://www.intralinks.com): **Financial Services** **Virtual Data Rooms** Successfully designed and deployed Intralinks' first large-scale analytics offering, specifically for managing complex, long-running Pharmaceutical trials. System ran on Oracle Exadata.
- [AIG](https://www.AIG.com): **Insurance** Architected an underwriting system including the entire underwriting ingestion pipeline and the associated machine learning algorithms and data storage strategy.
- [Thumb](https://theamericangenius.com/thumb-social-network-instant-opinions/): **Social Media** **Startup** Designed and rolled out web-scale data analytics including ETL, optimized Vertica database columnar schemas, and Vertica database instance deployment.
- [Friended](https://www.friended.com/): **AI** **Social Media** **Startup** Strategic business advisory, data science research including short message/conversation sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and data quality at scale.
- [Namakina](https://www.namakina.com/): **AI** **Health & Wellness** **Startup** Strategic business advisory. Helped define strategic and competitive positioning.
- [Medici.ai](https://www.medici.ai/): **AI** **FinTech** **Startup** **Crypto** Strategic business advisory and data architecture design.
- [DOOR3](https://www.door3.com): **Software Development** Strategic business advisory, responsible for strategic pivot in client and competitive strategy. Launched and led DOOR3 Labs, a sub-organization tasked with designing and building advanced architectures for AI, machine learning, and data integration.

## Contact
- **Email**: pre@machine61.net
- **Website**: https://www.machine61.net
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/company/machine61-llc/

## Location
New York City, NY, USA