Bill Hunt
CEO at The Thiel Foundation
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Hunt is a serial founder and CEO with decades of experience building and exiting category-defining software companies, including five acquisitions totaling $600M to buyers such as Oracle, Avaya and Alcatel. He combines hands-on technical leadership—having served as CTO or VP of engineering across startups and large enterprises—with product, operations and M&A experience spanning CRM, edge AI/MLOps, security and networking. Based in Mountain View, he currently leads BlueSphereAI and mentors young founders in Thiel’s 20 Under 20 program, reflecting a passion for cultivating emerging entrepreneurs. An inventor with 12 patents and a track record of acquiring companies as well as being acquired, he’s known for scaling globally distributed engineering teams and turning deep technical insight into market-leading products.
7 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (52)
sensor10
kotlin8
internet8
gateway8
sine-wave8
points7
anki7
storage7
android7
cloud-storage7
iot6
wave6
plugin6
api5
srs5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
foglamp/foglamp-south-sinusoid
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
A FogLAMP plugin to generate sine wave data points
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
sine-wavesinepluginwavefoglamp
foglamp/foglamp-filter-scale
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
FogLAMP "scale" Filter plugin: simple readings data transformation plugin to apply a scale factor and optional offset to every data point within the asset.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
transformationfactorscalepluginapply
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