Alec Bell
Co-Founder & CTO at ThunderPhone
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Bell is a founder and CTO with a decade of experience building perception and data infrastructure for robotics and real-time systems. He founded SensorSurf (YC W23) to solve the painful problem of moving and searching massive robotics datasets after building large-scale imagery pipelines and YOLOv5-based perception at Sea Machines. Prior roles at Uber and Expedia strengthened his low-latency systems and applied ML chops—shipping real-time sensor pipelines for self-driving vehicles and deploying production BERT-based chatbots that cut call-center load. Based in San Francisco, Alec blends hands-on engineering in C++ and ML with company-building grit, having raised funding and closed Series A customers before refocusing to new ventures like ThunderPhone. A less obvious thread through his career is a consistent focus on making huge, messy data usable—turning terabytes of imagery into the training examples that actually improve models.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
W23, W23 at Y CombinatorM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderB.S. Computer Science & Engineering, B.S. Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University
English
Github Skills (40)
bag8
ros8
imu8
robotics8
thread-safety7
asynchronous7
java7
calibration7
camera6
optical-flow6
redis-sentinel6
pipelining6
redis6
mcap5
rosbag5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alec-bell/HungryFrog
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
alec-bell/agent
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Collect data intelligently from your robots.
Contributions:68 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 months
roboticsrosros2sensorsurf
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