Aidan Fitzgerald is a machine learning engineer and startup founder with 16 years of software experience, currently co-founding an AI-focused venture in New York. He led personalization and recommendation efforts at PayPal—shipping LightGBM models, integrating GuideStar data, and improving fundraiser diversity by 18% through geolocation-aware heuristics. His background spans applied ML for social good at Stanford and hands-on engineering roles from security tooling to production pipelines using BigQuery, Dataproc, and Spark. Comfortable bridging research and product, he has a track record of turning prototypes (including a ChatGPT-powered fundraiser-writing assistant) into deployed features that influence user behavior and revenue.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Cornell Engineering
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Stuyvesant High School
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