Devon Bleibtrey

Technology executive with 15+ years building products that connect the physical and digital worlds. Led cross-functional teams from 3 to 70+, managed budgets from $500K to $20M, and held full P&L ownership across three organizations. Career pattern: build principled teams, ship products that create competitive advantage, and scale - from IoT products that drove Cognizant's acquisition of ESG Mobility, to multi-agent AI systems serving 100,000+ users at Fetch.ai. Board member at Fetch.ai. U.S. Patent Holder.

Experience

Chief Technology Officer 2021 - Present

Fetch.ai - The Ecosystem of Autonomous Economic Agents

Member of the Fetch.ai Board of Directors; report to the board quarterly on technology strategy, product performance, and platform growth
Lead and coach a cross-functional senior leadership team of 4 executives, 70+ engineers, and 10+ business/marketing/sales leaders across a multi-product AI portfolio: ASI:One (community platform where every member has a personal AI), Agentverse (agent discovery and connectivity platform), and Flockx (content platform)
Manage a $20M annual budget with full P&L ownership for the product portfolio; grew Fetch.ai from pre-product to 100,000+ users and a developer community of 2M+ AI agents, recognized by DigitalOcean as a top 10 AI community of 2025
Established AI governance practices including model evaluation and benchmarking (Langfuse, LangChain), GDPR compliance, responsible deployment frameworks, and human-in-the-loop oversight across all AI products
Built AI-native practices across four disciplines: coached engineering teams on agent-assisted development (Cursor, Claude, MCP integrations), operations teams on automated monitoring and incident response, marketing teams on AI-powered content and community management, and sales leaders (VPs, CROs) on agentizing prospecting and account management via Salesforce, HubSpot, Intercom, and Twilio integrations
Co-invented a patented system for autonomous AI agents that coordinate vehicle-based services using IoT device data and machine learning (US 12,620,046 B2)
Established a culture rooted in radical transparency, Kaizen, and Team Topologies that scales across distributed teams in 6 time zones
Products featured in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Forbes, and CNBC; published case studies with Google Cloud, Elastic, and Zep

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer 2023 - Present

Flockx - Content Platform for Creators and Small Businesses (majority owned by Fetch.ai)

Founded and led concurrently with my Fetch.ai executive role to bring the ecosystem's agent technology to consumers and small businesses; Fetch.ai later took a majority stake.

Own company vision and go-to-market; raised capital and built the founding executive team; managed $1M-$5M annual budget with full P&L ownership
Built an AI harness that generates a personalized AI for each user on signup, automating on-brand content creation - written posts, images, and video, plus scheduling - and local community discovery
Lead through directors running stream-aligned and subsystem teams, applying Team Topologies to scale delivery
Automated content creation for over 1,000 creators and small businesses; partnered with ArtPrize to deliver personalized AI experiences to over 30,000 participants in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Established GDPR compliance, AI memory systems (Neo4j, Elastic), RAG pipelines, and model evaluation frameworks
Fetch.ai acquired a majority stake to power ASI:One and Fetch Business; the Flockx brand continues serving automated content creation under my leadership

Director of Technology 2017 - 2021

ESG Mobility - Acquired by Cognizant (2021)

Built and led a new product division inside a 1,000-person automotive engineering consultancy. Grew from individual contributor to directing 20+ cross-functional team members across sales, marketing, product development, customer support, and IT; grew budget from $500K to $5M with full P&L ownership.

Created three IoT and machine learning products that became ESG's competitive moat, directly contributing to Cognizant's acquisition of the company
Partnered with the President of US Operations, CEO, CTO, and CFO - and VPs of Engineering across the US, Europe, and China - to drive product growth and open new service opportunities
Established GDPR compliance across all products and ISO 27001 compliant internal systems automating recruiting, onboarding, and asset management - three-person team maintained 99.99%+ uptime on 500+ cloud assets
Led teams across automotive innovation hubs in Germany, the United States, and China; products adopted by GM, Ford, Stellantis, BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes, plus electric vehicle startups
Transformed Ford's software development process from waterfall to agile, creating training programs adopted by 500+ engineers
Delivered end-to-end fleet monitoring with web, mobile, video streaming, and computer vision for automated vehicle identification

Products Built

Auklet - Embeddable IoT performance monitoring. 200+ users within the first month. Reduced on-site debugging for engineers by 25%.

Automated Test Platform - Infotainment and cluster testing using image/video-defined test cases with machine learning. Reduced release validation from months to hours.

Vehicle Analysis Platform - IoT dongle and logistics platform for instrumenting pilot vehicles. Cut time to root cause from weeks to hours.

Platform Lead 2013 - 2019

PrintSites (Freelance / Contract) - Millions of users, $10M+ annual revenue

Independent after-hours contract engagement, built with ESG's approval and concurrent with my ESG roles.

Built the entire web-to-print platform from zero to production in three months
Served hundreds of customers including The UPS Store, reaching millions of end users
Platform supported over $10 million in annual transaction volume
Created the API layer that became the backbone of the PrintSites ecosystem

Advanced Systems Manager 2013 - 2017

ESG Mobility - Troy, MI

Led a team building complete end-to-end IoT solutions for mobility-focused companies, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering
Instituted a culture of continuous improvement and agile principles across the team
Delivered next-generation infotainment solutions, a cost-effective hardware-in-the-loop validation environment for mobile devices, fleet monitoring platforms, and a continuous deployment pipeline

Senior Software Engineer 2012 - 2013

ESG Mobility

Served as lead engineer on multiple projects focused on automation of data extraction and analysis
Coached junior software engineers on best practices, improving their development capabilities in Python and Java
Owned technical code reviews, recruiting, and customer engagements, reporting to the Director of Engineering

Software Engineer 2010 - 2012

ESG Mobility

Led ESG's first US software application development projects and helped build the core software team, enabling the company to pursue larger end-to-end software engagements
Built and managed the networking and infrastructure for the company's first cloud deployments on Amazon Web Services
Developed scripts and documentation that let new developers spin up consistent local environments within minutes of starting

Patent

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Education

Areas of Expertise

Technology Leadership Executive Leadership and Coaching Digital Transformation IoT and Connected Products Machine Learning and AI Team Building and Development Product Strategy Regulatory Compliance (ISO 27001) Agile Transformation Multi-Agent Systems Platform Architecture Go-to-Market Strategy Developer Community Building TypeScript / Python / React / Next.js / Django / FastAPI