I did my PhD at Berkeley back in the late 90s early 2000s in the dot-com Boom and then bust days. I had a job offer coming out of grad school from a tiny startup that was building this thing called a search engine, Google. So ended up going into academia spent eight years on the faculty at Harvard in computer science. Joined an up-and-coming startup here in Seattle called OctoML which was founded by a good friend and colleague of mine who's a professor at University of Washington. Spent about two years there leading the engineering team at OctoML and then left about a year ago to start Fixie What is your career story? Share it with

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