Asli Bonabi

Asli Bonabi is a technology executive and entrepreneur who serves as Co-Founder and CTO of Surveill, an AI-powered compliance platform transforming how financial institutions manage regulatory risk. With over a decade of experience building scalable, data-intensive systems, she specializes in machine learning, automation, and infrastructure for high-stakes, regulated environments. A graduate of MIT, Bonabi began her career at Microsoft and Uber, where she developed deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale data processing. Her work has focused on building resilient, production-grade systems that operate reliably under complex constraints. At Surveill, she leads the development of AI-native compliance systems that convert manual, interpretive workflows into structured, auditable, and automated processes. Her work addresses a core challenge of modern AI: the loss of transparency. She focuses on making model behavior more auditable by restoring explainability, rule traceability, and output consistency, which are essential for deploying AI in regulated settings. Bonabi’s perspective sits at the intersection of AI, compliance, and system design, focusing on how organizations can govern AI systems in ways that are reliable, defensible, and trustworthy at scale.