Anson Whitmer
Co-founder And CEO at The Path
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnson Whitmer is a founder and data-driven CEO with 12 years of experience building teams and products at the intersection of experimentation, applied statistics, machine learning, and data engineering. He scaled Calm’s Data & AI organization from its early days to play a critical role in the company’s growth into a unicorn and later led its data-science organization. As co-founder and CEO of The Path he combines rigorous clinical science and AI to deliver high-safety therapeutic and coaching experiences that prioritize outcomes over engagement metrics. His background includes a Stanford postdoc and 15+ publications, giving him deep expertise in experimental design, neuroscience-informed product strategy, and communicating complex results to stakeholders. A seasoned builder who has taken time for sabbatical travel and reflection, he brings uncommon empathy and behavioral insight to product leadership. Based in Reno, NV, he blends academic rigor with startup execution to ship measurable mental-health impact at scale.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience at University of Colorado BoulderB.S., Psychology, B.S., Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignNIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive science and clinical neuroscience, NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive science and clinical neuroscience at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (24)
classifier9
python8
data-science7
pytorch7
machine-learning7
reinforcement-learning7
text-to-speech7
deep-learning6
ai6
tensorflow6
fine-tuning6
diffusion-models6
chatgpt6
jax5
openai5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
whitmera/Zipfian_project-similarity_between_SF_neighborhoods
Feb 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
calm/docker-airflow
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Docker Apache Airflow
Contributions:7 PRs, 37 pushes, 4 branches in 23 days
docker-apachedockerapacheapache-airflowairflow
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