Primary Job Title Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Primary Organization iAsk Ai
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Bradford Folkens is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of CloudSight, Inc., a technology company that specializes in image captioning and understanding.
Folkens earned his Bachelor of Science in Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematics from Northern Illinois University in 2002. Folkens has owned and operated his own company, CityTech
USA, since 2003. CityTech has notably created the web-based collaborative government website PublicSalary.com.
While working for Downers Grove, Folkens designed and engineered various web applications for government operations, including online permitting, property management, budgeting (integrated with legacy finance packages), water billing, RFP and procurement. He designed and developed a CMS based website and also set up and managed web application servers running Windows and Gentoo Linux. Folkens performed DBA duties for Oracle 9i-10g and MySQL databases, including initial planning and setup, tuning, and maintenance.
Folkens is also the Chief Technical Officer for both Net Ideas, LLC and Image Searcher, Inc. where his primary tasks are overseeing all technical aspects of app development. He is also directly involved with software engineering, iOS programming and web development. Folkens specializes in web application development in Ruby on Rails, High performance MySQL, Gentoo Linux, Mac OS X and most recently native iOS development.
