Meet the Founders of Retriever Technology
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Michael Braga
CEO
A Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist, who worked for USA Today and the Arizona Republic. He is now a professor of practice at Texas Tech University and Editor of West Texas Watchdogs.
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Tomas Rohatynski
CTO
A Texas Tech (cum laude) computer science graduate student. Tomas knows Bash, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Lua, MATLAB, Python, Rust and SQL. Works at the High Performance Computing Center performing maintenance of HPCC clusters.
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Madilyn Coyne
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND SALES
Former White House Intern during the summer of 2025. She is currently a Texas Tech political journalism student and digital creator. Serves as the sole host of Texas Tech’s MCTV political segment, Inside the Issues. She is also the Managing Editor of West Texas Watchdogs.
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Texas Tech University provided our initial funding.
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Bill is the executive editor and Pat is the publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican. They are partners in Retriever and are testing the first version of the search engine. Bill was the senior vice president of news for GateHouse News – once one of the biggest newspaper chains in the country. Pat was the publisher of the Austin American statesman and 10 other smaller papers at Gannett.