
David Seppi
Head of AI Transformation | Technology Executive
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AI transformation and technology executive with 20+ years leading enterprise change, software engineering, and internal automation across healthcare, B2B SaaS, fintech, payments, and consumer technology. Aligns executives on outcomes, converts priorities into roadmaps, leads matrixed delivery teams, defines adoption metrics, and partners with Technology and IT on the data, knowledge, security, and platform foundations required for AI. Current scope includes Engineering, Corporate IT, RevOps, AI, data, architecture, and enterprise applications at a high-growth health and wellness company.
Combines hands-on experimentation with disciplined attention to measurable value, privacy, security, reliability, and customer trust.
Experience
Senior Vice President of Technology at Pompa Program Cellular Solutions (2024-11 – Present)
Leads Engineering, Corporate IT, RevOps, architecture, data, AI, enterprise applications, and technology operations.
- Own enterprise technology and internal AI transformation for a high-growth health and wellness company, partnering with the CEO and functional leaders across Sales, Marketing, Coaching, Operations, and Technology.
- Translate business goals and high-friction workflows into an AI roadmap, prioritized use cases, pilots, delivery plans, and measurable operating outcomes while balancing customer commitments and ongoing product work.
- Lead matrixed teams of engineers, analysts, data scientists, vendors, and domain experts to deliver AI-enabled internal tools, automations, integrations, and customer-supporting capabilities.
- Drive hands-on AI solution development spanning LLM applications, virtual coaching, knowledge and data aggregation, video and transcript workflows, enterprise APIs, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol integrations.
- Introduced Claude-based engineering workflows across design, development, troubleshooting, documentation, testing, and delivery; reinforce adoption through demonstrations, training, reusable patterns, and direct coaching.
- Partner with IT, Security, and AWS specialists on shared AI foundations, including cloud architecture, governed system access, enterprise APIs, operational data, privacy controls, and reliability safeguards.
- Established dashboards, delivery metrics, and faster operating rhythms to improve accountability, cycle time, quality, and decision-making; combined Engineering and IT into one Technology organization during company change.
Vice President of Technology at Kenect (2022-01 – 2024-11)
Led R&D for a B2B SaaS communications platform serving small and distributed customer-facing businesses.
- Owned engineering strategy and execution across product development, architecture, cloud operations, DevOps, quality, security, and production reliability.
- Partnered across Product, Sales, Support, and company leadership to turn customer and business needs into roadmaps, operating priorities, and scalable platform capabilities.
- Improved engineering productivity and delivery discipline through clearer planning, architecture governance, automated practices, release management, and operational accountability.
Senior Vice President of Technology at Seashine Capital (2021-01 – 2022-12)
Fintech startup focused on simplifying and expanding access to homeownership.
- Built alpha and beta digital wallet, native mobile, and connected financial-services products from concept through early-market validation.
- Established product and engineering practices where security, regulatory requirements, scalability, usability, and speed were critical.
Vice President of Engineering Contract at Google / ADT (2020-01 – 2021-12)
- Led services, computer vision, and audio analytics engineering across partner ecosystems, complex integration boundaries, and customer-impacting reliability requirements.
Senior Director of Technology at Alianza (2018-01 – 2020-12)
Led an 85-person engineering organization across 10 Agile teams building a cloud-native telecommunications platform on AWS.
- Directed distributed teams across application development, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, architecture, testing, and production operations.
- Advanced platform scalability, automated delivery, quality, reliability, and engineering operating models across a complex production environment.
- Partnered with executive leadership on organizational strategy, engineering capacity, technical investment, architecture, and delivery priorities.
Vice President Software Engineering at Collective Medical (2016-01 – 2018-12)
Healthcare technology platform enabling hospital networks to coordinate patient care.
- Scaled engineering from 3 to 70+ in three years, building the leadership, architecture, processes, and operating systems required for rapid growth.
- Built a high-performing product engineering organization whose growth and portfolio contributed to Collective Medical's $650M acquisition.
- Led engineering in a regulated, security-sensitive healthcare environment with strong controls for availability, data protection, quality, and production operations.
Senior Manager and Director Software Engineering at eBay & PayPal (2003-01 – 2016-12)
Progressed from individual contributor through team lead, development manager, senior development manager, and director roles.
- Led global engineering teams and major initiatives across ecommerce and payments platforms, building deep experience with highly available, high-volume financial systems.
- Delivered more than $100M in efficiency savings through operational, platform, and engineering improvement programs.
- Led enterprise programs spanning governance, production accountability, organizational change, engineering metrics, technology investment, and executive stakeholder influence.
Senior Software Developer at Microsoft (1997-01 – 2003-12)
- Product development team member for the award-winning Links 1999, Links 2000, and Links 2001 franchise.
Education
M.S. in Computer Science – Stevens Institute of Technology (2012-01 – 2014-12)
MBA in Technology Management – University of Utah (2000-01 – 2002-12)
Organizational Effectiveness and Innovation – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008-01 – 2010-12)
Bachelors in Design – Brigham Young University (1990-01 – 1994-12)
