Alex Kolchinski
CEO at Flux Interpreting
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kolchinski is a founder and CEO with nine years of experience building AI-first startups and shipping product-led ventures from Stanford labs to Y Combinator. He currently runs ThunderPhone, offering no-code, AI-powered phone calls, and leads Flux Interpreting to automate multilingual conversation translation — both products reflecting his focus on practical applied ML. Previously he co-founded Mezli, raising $4M and launching the world's first fully autonomous restaurant that sold 10,000 meals before market conditions forced a strategic exit. His background blends academic research (first-author ML papers from Stanford SAIL) with product and engineering experience at Google, giving him fluency across research, product management, and go-to-market execution. Based in San Francisco, he pairs technical depth in AI with a track record of turning prototypes into revenue-generating MVPs and pragmatic commercial systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Winchester High SchoolW21, W21 at Y CombinatorBS/MS Computer Science (Concentration in Artificial Intelligence; Minor in Statistics), BS/MS Computer Science (Concentration in Artificial Intelligence; Minor in Statistics) at University of ChicagoIndividually Designed MA Education (Educational Technology - Human and Machine Learning), Individually Designed MA Education (Educational Technology - Human and Machine Learning) at Stanford University
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (18)
markov8
hidden7
logistic-regression6
statistical-inference5
api4
python4
scikit3
data-science3
machine-learning3
glow3
scikit-learn2
probabilistic2
generative2
pytorch1
probabilistic-programming1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kolchinski/free-pep-talks
Apr 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
kolchinski/student_simulator_policy
May 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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