Leo Hentschker
CTO at Column
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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
Github Skills (85)
legaltech10
quantitative10
government-data10
zipline10
svd10
searchable10
brain-computer-interface10
pythonic9
science9
trading9
azure-functions9
converter9
algorithmic-trading9
financial9
ocaml9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
leohentschker/vslint
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
Use AI to enforce UI/UX rules in your web app
Contributions:153 PRs, 206 pushes, 147 branches in 3 months
leohentschker/courtlistener
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
A fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings.
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 months
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