Overview
Emanuel Castañeda is Founder & CEO at EasyDeploy AI as of March 2026[1][3]. Castañeda previously worked as SDE II at Audible, Inc. from May 2020 to March 2026[4], where Castañeda built live inferencing infrastructure serving hundreds of production endpoints, developed a GenAI evaluation framework adopted across data science teams, and created customer targeting models[2]. Before Audible, Castañeda held positions at BlackRock as Associate Software Engineer and Analyst Software Engineer in a rotational program, including work on FX trading software on Aladdin[5][6][7]. Castañeda earned a degree in Computer Science from Princeton University[8].
Profile introduction
I've spent the better part of a decade building ML systems inside two of the largest companies in the world. At Audible I built live inferencing infrastructure that served hundreds of production endpoints, a GenAI evaluation framework adopted across data science teams, and customer targeting models that drove a 400% lift in incremental profit. Before that I was at BlackRock building FX trading software on Aladdin. What I kept noticing was that the tools enabling those outcomes, trained predictive models running on proprietary data, were completely inaccessible to smaller businesses. Not beca…
Career history
- Founder & CEOMar 2026 to presentEasyDeploy AI
- SDE IIMay 2020 to Mar 2026Audible, Inc.
- Associate Software EngineerJan 2018 to May 2020BlackRock
- Analyst Software Engineer | Rotational ProgramAug 2016 to Jul 2018BlackRock
- Aladdin Product Group - Corporate Applications InternMay 2015 to Jul 2015BlackRock
- SDE IIAudible
Education
Computer Science2012 - 2016Princeton University
- Kettle Run High School2008 - 2012
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