Summary
Anna Venancio-marques is a seasoned engineering leader with a decade of experience building and managing AI/ML teams, currently leading first-party inference efforts at Anthropic in San Francisco. She has driven privacy-preserving and efficiency-focused machine learning solutions at Meta and shaped product strategy for NLP platforms as Director of Engineering at Primer.ai. Her background blends deep scientific training—a PhD in chemistry and experience in molecular biology and microfluidics—with hands-on data science and curriculum design, enabling her to translate complex research into production ML systems. Known for shipping 0-to-1 ML solutions and quantifying model uncertainty for internal stakeholders, she balances rigor with pragmatic delivery. She brings cross-disciplinary leadership from corporate innovation programs to fast-moving AI startups, making her adept at aligning research, product, and compliance needs. An uncommon strength is her ability to bridge hard science and large-scale ML engineering, which informs both technical strategy and team development.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Collège des Ingénieurs
Data Science Immersive, Data Science Immersive at Galvanize - San Francisco, SoMa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Chimie, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Chimie at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
M2 Chemistry and Bio-chemistry, M2 Chemistry and Bio-chemistry at École normale supérieure de Lyon
French, English, German, Portuguese