Alexander De La Cerda
Founder & General Partner at Assist-o
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Austria
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Top SchoolAlexander De La Cerda is a founder and general partner with eight years of technical and entrepreneurial experience building ventures at the intersection of AI, quantum computing, and creative ecosystems. Trained in computer science at EPFL and as a Harvard quantum research fellow, he published work on purification circuits and entanglement routing while also accelerating a private equity recommender system threefold through an economic-potential metric and transfer learning. He leads Assist-o, a remote services firm operating in Switzerland and the U.S., and founded HOIV, a hybrid launchpad that combines startups, artists, coworking and funding to catalyze creative entrepreneurship. Alexander blends deep research chops with product-minded execution—equally comfortable benchmarking quantum protocols as he is designing scalable data-driven features for investment platforms. Based in Cambridge with roots in Austria and Switzerland, he is known for turning advanced technical ideas into practical, revenue-generating solutions and for fostering interdisciplinary communities that bridge tech, art, and business.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Quantum Computing, Quantum Computing at Harvard UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at EPFLSir Karl Popper Schule
English, German, French, Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (21)
identifier10
json-database10
latitude-longitude10
letter10
timezone10
elevation10
json9
julia8
database8
apple-wallet8
homebridge8
passkit7
homekit7
quantum-computing7
graph6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexander-san/Airports
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
A JSON database of 28k+ airports with ICAO/IATA codes, names, cities, two-letter country identifiers, elevation, latitude & longitude, and a timezone identifier
Contributions:22 PRs, 36 pushes, 28 branches in 4 months
jeniffer9/BigInt
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
arithmeticarbitrary-precision-arithmeticarbitraryarbitrary-precisionpure-swift
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