Summary
Bekk Blando is a founder and full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience, now transitioning into machine learning by building practical projects around Loras for Stable Diffusion and LLMs. He combines a strong mathematics background and academic research on HRV-based stress prediction with hands-on product engineering using Ruby on Rails, React, and cloud-native infrastructure. As leader of Thoughtful Labs and Thoughtful-Oasis he focuses on AI-driven products and novel approaches to data organization and retrieval-augmented generation. His career spans startups, research at Stanford and Clemson, and launching education initiatives that reached tens of thousands of students, reflecting a rare mix of deep technical chops, product sense, and community impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at Clemson University
Python Engineering, Python Engineering at The Iron Yard
Riverside High School
English