Josh Johnston
Founder And CTO at Bain & Company
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Johnston is a seasoned AI and robotics leader, founder and CTO of a stealth Boise startup building an AI foundation model aimed at materials science, chemistry, and energy in the real world. With 20+ years on the AI frontier—from DARPA Grand Challenges and robotics programs to leading AI at Kount—the team delivered a $640M Equifax acquisition. He specializes in architecting domain-specific AI from scratch, scaling teams from 0 to 50+, and turning research into revenue across early financing to exits. As a fractional CTO for VC/PE-backed companies, he bridges technical depth with execution to unlock business value from data and launch market-defining AI products. He holds an MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and is pursuing a Graph Networks PhD (2025). Based in Boise, Idaho, he also supports the local tech community through governance and strategic advisory roles.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Robotics, MS Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (6)
python7
algorithms6
scientific-computing6
scipy5
filesystem2
file-system2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joshjohnston/Teaching
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
bcal-lidar/tools
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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