Founders
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Phillip Troutman
Co-Founder | Software Engineering
Phillip Troutman heads Academics and Instruction at Codesmith - the top software engineering residency program in the US. Previous work includes engineering at the Department of Homeland Security, and Co-founder of OSLabs - a tech accelerator focusing on furthering the open source community with cutting edge developer tools, integrations, and services. With a passion for training he has given talks on a multitude of engineering topics at Queens.js, Build with Code Los Angeles, New York Times, JP Morgan and published trainings on Udemy and Youtube.
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Jonathan Bechtel
Co-Founder | Data Science & ML/ AI
Jonathan is a data scientist with an expertise in time series modeling and open source development. He has helped organize contributions to TensorflowJS and sktime, and enjoys evangelizing the spread of grassroots ML knowledge. He has worked with organizations such as General Assembly, NYPD, Amber Capital and Advent International to assist them with their data science needs. Jonathan has a particular passion for time series problems, since he believes they are the most practical way for companies to harness ML for business value.
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Greta Gerazimaite
Co-Founder | Business Strategy
Greta is an independent management consultant who helps global ventures scale operations and fuel growth. She has worked with VC and PE funds, MNCs, and startups across the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Greta began her career in Big Pharma, where she received global recognition for her contributions to digitization efforts. She further honed her problem-solving and analytical skills at Bain & Company, where she worked on projects in Corporate and Private Equity Groups. Greta holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
Advisors
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Will Sentance
Advisor | Software Engineering
Will Sentance leads Codesmith - a global software engineering and machine learning program. Before Codesmith he started Icecomm - a realtime video platform for developers and worked as a software engineer at Gem - a blockchain startup. He completed his academic work at Oxford and Harvard Universities. He has given talks on engineering and entrepreneurship at the BBC, Pivotal Labs, Harvard, Yale, USC, UCLA and Frontend Masters.
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Alex Zai
Advisor | Data Science & ML/ AI
Alex develops the DSML program and assists with DSML engineering endeavors. He worked as a deep learning engineer for Amazon and Uber, where he contributed to their internal ML libraries such as MXNet, which were used to power their AI products, with a specialty in Computer Vision. He's also the author of the book "Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action" by Manning Publications, which was the first book to emphasize the use of RL for common engineering problems.
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Eric Kirsten
Advisor | Business Strategy
Eric Kirsten is a technology and media entrepreneur and Sr. Advisor to Codesmith. Prior to Codesmith, he was the co-founder of several technology startups, including TrueChat (acquired by Terayon Communications) and Fanzter, Inc. (acquired by Disney). He has served as the SVP of Product Management for GlobalCenter/Exodus, a $6 billion web hosting and managed services company, and also as the Head of Digital for Aetna. He is a graduate of Duke University and Georgetown Law School.
Team
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Parker Hutcheson
Engineering Lead
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Mohammed Sebbagh
Software Engineer
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Alexa Nunes
Software Engineer
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Victor He
Software Engineer
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Mark Smith
Software Engineer
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Aghil Zadeh
Data Scientist
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Adrian Pol
Data Scientist
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Zheyu Lu
Data Scientist
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Cake Kunyakorn
Lead Designer
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Rachel Ciruolo
Designer