Adam Geitgey
Co-Founder CTO at Turquoise Health
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Adam Geitgey is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder/CTO with 12 years of experience building scalable software and machine learning products, currently leading engineering at Turquoise Health. He blends startup grit and enterprise chops from roles at Groupon and multiple founding CTO positions, driving platform migrations, APIs, and product launches across global teams. An active machine learning practitioner and educator, he authored popular ML courses and created the widely used face_recognition Python library, contributing documentation, packaging, and CLI improvements that helped it rank among top ML projects on GitHub. He has advised public-health and philanthropic organizations as a consultant and has a track record of turning research-grade ML into production systems. Based in Stony Stratford and educated at Georgia Tech in HCI, he pairs hands-on engineering with a product-first perspective and a knack for clear technical communication.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Human/Computer Interaction, B.S. Computer Science Human/Computer Interaction at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
face-detection10
python10
documentation10
face-recognition10
setuptools9
py9
machine-learning8
oneclick5
clickable5
onclick5
scipy5
clicking5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ageitgey/face_recognition
Mar 2017 - Jun 2022
The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 145 commits, 192 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the documentation and setup of the `face_recognition` repository. They updated the README and RST files, improving the clarity and usability of the documentation. Furthermore, the user addressed dependencies and build configurations within `setup.py`, demonstrating an understanding of project setup and packaging. They also refactored the CLI to include a better output format.
apipythonsimplestface-recognitionrecognition
ageitgey/medium_to_ghost
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
Instantly move all your Medium.com content (formatted posts + images) to an open source Ghost blog!
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 4 months
ghost-bloginstantlyghostmedium-composts
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