Summary
Alex Sands is a product-minded technology leader with eight years of experience building AI-driven products and startups, currently serving as GM of Truemed Health. He co-founded Plasticity, a Y Combinator-backed NLP API company acquired in 2020, and has hands-on product and engineering experience from roles at Apple, Nest (Google), and Comcast. Trained in both computer science and economics at the University of Pennsylvania, he blends technical depth with business strategy to take research-grade ML into commercial products. Alex’s background spans founding, scaling, and exit—an uncommon combination that informs pragmatic decisions around go-to-market, partnerships, and product architecture in health tech.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
YCAI, YCAI at Y Combinator
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science & Bachelor of Science in Economics, Management, Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science & Bachelor of Science in Economics, Management, Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at University of Pennsylvania
Russian