Josh Purtell
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJosh Purtell is a founder and AI-focused technologist based in San Francisco with eight years of ML research and engineering experience. As founder and CEO of Synth AI since 2024, he leads efforts to automate the development of state-of-the-art AI agents, bridging research and product at scale. Previously at Basis, he prototyped retrieval-augmented text classification, document processing, and LM agents, and built software to learn the value of prompts and demonstrations from data. His career also includes roles at Halborn as a data scientist and software developer, and as a technical cofounder at Politeia, with foundational work in econometrics and computational game theory at Yale. Early in his path he explored security testing as a pen tester and developed language skills as a Slavic translator, reflecting a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach. He earned a BA in Mathematics from Yale, providing a rigorous analytical foundation for his work at the intersection of AI research and product development.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (62)
artificial-intelligence10
chatgpt10
llm10
agent10
openai10
gpt10
developer-tools10
cli10
equations9
lms9
cybersecurity9
differential-equations9
self-attention9
scientific-machine-learning8
differentialequations8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JoshuaPurtell/ProcessingStochasticities
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 release, 70 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
StrackGroupYale/basic-program
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Repository for Program Implementation and Analysis
Contributions:1 PR, 208 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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