Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Hentschker is the CTO of Column, a public-benefit company building infrastructure for public interest information, with a decade of experience translating messy civic data into production systems. He combines hands-on skills in data scraping, DevOps and NLP with product leadership, having led engineering at Quorum and consulted on research systems at Quantopian. A Harvard-trained mathematician, he also taught functional programming as a CS51 teaching fellow, bringing both rigorous theory and practical engineering to bear. Notably, he coauthored a physics paper on particle aggregation, an unusual signal of his cross-disciplinary quantitative curiosity and research-first approach. He focuses on hiring and scaling teams that deliver reliable, auditable pipelines for civic data and analysis.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at Harvard University
English, French, German