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Vlad
Powerman

Product and technical program leadership for data, AI, and geospatial systems.

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Education

  • PhD in geology The projects below are in this field.

Employment

  • Apple Engineering program management.
  • Bloom Energy Software and data program management.

Apple and Bloom Energy are previous employers. Detailed scope, dates, and outcomes are not listed here until they can be sourced from a resume or LinkedIn.

Founder

  • Vlamel Technologies LLC Owner and CEO. San Jose, California.
  • DeZirteer, Hunterizer, Kataba Product work, in the cases below.

StateScoop · 2026

2026 StateScoop 50 Industry Leadership finalist

Vlad Powerman, co-founder and CEO of Hunterizer.

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Selected leadership

What I owned, and what I decided.

Three public products. Each case study has the longer record. Leadership notes below are about ownership and sequencing, not volume metrics.

01

DeZirteer

Context
Geoscientists compare detrital zircon U-Pb dates after the analyses have been reduced.
My role
Founder and chief developer. The project site also credits mathematician Molon Buyantuev and scientific advisor Dr. Alexei Ivanov, and lists my affiliation as Vlamel Technologies LLC.
What shipped
A published scientific workflow, then the same analysis in a web application and a ChatGPT connector.

DeZirteer case study

02

Hunterizer

Context
Whether a hunt may be legal depends on the boundary, the date, and the species.
My role
I co-founded Hunterizer and led technical development. David Boinagrov co-founded it and led regulation data and content. Artemida Publishing, Inc. publishes the product.
What shipped
A mobile product that answers a place, date, and species question, with the result worded as what may be legal.

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03

Kataba

Context
A useful sentence in a legacy report or a well file is easy to lose if the answer cannot be opened to its source.
My role
I am developing Kataba with a small geoscience and software team.
What shipped
Retrieval that returns an answer linked to the document, the page, and the passage. The public site is kataba.ai.

Kataba case study

Selected research

Three papers that show the scientific work.

  • Chemical Geology · 2021 · First author

    A review of detrital zircon data treatment, and launch of a new tool ‘Dezirteer’ along with the suggested universal workflow

    Vladislav I. Powerman, Molon D. Buyantuev, and Alexei V. Ivanov. Chemical Geology 583, 120437.

    Research documenting DeZirteer’s scientific workflow. The web application and the ChatGPT connector are separate, later interfaces.

    DOI 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120437 (opens in a new tab)

  • Geosphere · 2020 · First author

    Nature and timing of Late Devonian–early Mississippian island-arc magmatism in the Northern Sierra terrane and implications for regional Paleozoic plate tectonics

    Vladislav Powerman, Richard Hanson, Anna Nosova, Gary H. Girty, Jeremy Hourigan, and Andrei Tretiakov. Geosphere 16(1), 258–280. Published online in 2019.

    First-author research on the age and setting of magmatism in the Northern Sierra terrane, the class of problem the zircon software is built to examine.

    DOI 10.1130/GES02105.1 (opens in a new tab)

  • Geophysical Journal International · 2013 · First author

    Palaeogeography of the Siberian platform during middle Palaeozoic Times (∼450–400 Ma): new palaeomagnetic evidence from the Lena and Nyuya rivers

    Vladislav Powerman, Andrei Shatsillo, Robert Coe, Xixi Zhao, Dmitry Gladkochub, Robert Buchwaldt, and Vladimir Pavlov. Geophysical Journal International 194(3), 1412–1440.

    A palaeomagnetic reconstruction of the Siberian platform from measured sections on the Lena and Nyuya rivers.

    DOI 10.1093/gji/ggt197 (opens in a new tab)

Selected publications

Contact

Vlad Powerman

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vlad@vlamel.com

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