Anna Kazlauskas
Cofounder And CEO at OpenDataLabs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnna Kazlauskas is a founder and engineering leader with a decade of experience building user-focused, privacy-respecting products at the intersection of AI, crypto, and data ownership. As Cofounder and CEO of OpenDataLabs and cofounder/core contributor at Vana, she helps users capture and control the value of their personal data, drawing on earlier work enabling mobile-first blockchain access at Celo. Her background spans AI research at MIT CSAIL and economics roles at the World Bank and central banks, giving her a rare blend of technical depth and policy-minded systems thinking. She previously turned a World Bank internship into Iambiq, a YC-backed startup applying machine learning to document processing, showing a knack for turning research into products. Based in San Francisco and active in writing and public discourse, she combines product intuition with hands-on engineering and a commitment to equitable technology.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Economics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWinter 2018 Batch, Winter 2018 Batch at Y CombinatorAccelerated math coursework in middle school and high school, Accelerated math coursework in middle school and high school at University of Minnesota
French, English
Github Skills (74)
cryptocurrency10
smart-contracts10
crypto10
wallet10
ethereum10
blockchain10
api9
google-cloud-platform9
javascript-api9
firebase9
docker-compose8
web3js8
javascript8
golang8
faas8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ashishb/celo-monorepo
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Official repository for core projects comprising the Celo platform
Contributions:49 commits in 22 days
ethereumblockchaincelocryptocurrencydefi
corsali/data-graph
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
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