Rod Rivera

Rod Rivera (Prof Rod) is a Professor of the Practice in AI at ITAM and a Developer Relations Engineer at Rasa. With over 15 years of experience across three continents, Rod specializes in Sovereign Agent Architectures—autonomous, always-on AI systems designed for operational leverage. He has led ML initiatives for global technology leaders including Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, and Samsung. As the founder of the Sovereign Agents discipline, Rod focuses on educating the next generation of builders on how to replace human operational overhead with persistent, credentialed, and auditable digital employees.