Braden Katzman
Engineering Manager at Augment
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBraden Katzman is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading teams building AI-driven logistics and supply-chain software across startups and scaleups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently leads engineering at Augment after senior management roles at Flexport, Shopify, and Deliverr, and brings deep hands-on background from earlier software and image-analysis work at Memorial Sloan Kettering. A Columbia CS graduate with additional study at Stanford and a unique academic background in Jewish philosophy, he blends technical rigor with human-centered leadership and cross-disciplinary thinking. Known for moving rapidly between IC and managerial responsibilities, he frequently ships production ML features that bridge research and operations. He excels at scaling teams and systems in high-velocity environments while keeping a focus on practical, data-driven outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Postbaccalaureate Mathematics, Postbaccalaureate Mathematics at San José State UniversityMaster of Arts - MA Jewish Philosophy, Master of Arts - MA Jewish Philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)Bachelor's Degree Computer Science (AI Focus), Bachelor's Degree Computer Science (AI Focus) at Columbia UniversityIntensive Program in Computer Science Computer Science, Intensive Program in Computer Science Computer Science at Stanford University
Hebrew, French
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Github Skills (20)
sourceforge10
desktop-application10
microscopy10
javafx9
imaging9
java9
neuroimaging9
python8
vuforia8
desktop8
gene-expression6
pipeline4
spring4
unity-game-engine4
modeling4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhirongbaolab/WormGUIDES
May 2017 - May 2019
JavaFX desktop application for the Bao Lab WormGUIDES
Contributions:110 commits, 67 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years
desktop-applicationbaojavafxdesktopjavafx-desktop
zhirongbaolab/AceTree
Sep 2016 - May 2019
AceTree open source imaging analysis software from Starrynite project: http://starrynite.sourceforge.net/
Contributions:216 commits, 24 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 8 months
neuroimagingpythonsourceforgeanalysisc-plus-plus
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