Founders

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Parker Hutcheson

    Engineering Lead

  • Mohammed Sebbagh

    Software Engineer

  • Alexa Nunes

    Software Engineer

  • Victor He

    Software Engineer

  • Mark Smith

    Software Engineer

  • Aghil Zadeh

    Data Scientist

  • Adrian Pol

    Data Scientist

  • Zheyu Lu

    Data Scientist

  • Cake Kunyakorn

    Lead Designer

  • Rachel Ciruolo

    Designer

Our Team’s Track Record