John Mark Suhy

John Mark Suhy is CTO of Greystones Group. He brings more than 20 years of enterprise architecture and software development experience with leading agencies including USAF, FBI, Sandia Labs, Department of State, US Treasury and the Intel community. These solutions span many domains and technologies and incorporate scalable, open-source technologies for Data Pipelines, Cloud Native Architectures, Data Analytics and Machine Learning. He is a recognized industry expert in Graph Database, Anti-Money Laundering, Block Chain Analysis, and Cyber threat intelligence, consulting on large leading edge commercial and government software development programs. Suhy has in-depth understanding of the complexities involved in introducing modern technologies and practices into the US government. At the IRS, he architected and deployed a state of the art, container based, cloud native, micro-service architecture supporting over 6,000 analysts at the US Treasury to combat return fraud. He leveraged CI/CD pipelines and set up the tooling to power development and collaboration common place at private companies such as Netflix or Google. The knowledge graph components of the platform are heavily used by IRS’s data scientists for R&D and analytics. The system supported the identification of $10M in fraud in the first 30 days of deployment. Suhy authored the Government Edition of Neo4j, the world’s leading graph database supporting Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. He also is the co-founder of the open source ONgDB and DozerDb graph database projects. Mr. Suhy is a frequent speaker at prestigious events such as RSA. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from George Mason University in Virginia.