Brandon Smietana
CEO at Symbolic Analytics
Changning District, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolBrandon Smietana is a seasoned technology investor and operator with 15 years of experience building and backing data-driven ventures from Shanghai. As CEO of Symbolic Analytics he focuses on investing in symbolic and analytic technologies that bridge advanced math and applied AI. He previously engineered production NLP and big-data systems at MarketPsych Data, applying behavioral finance signals to asset prediction. Earlier in his career he shipped a popular multiplayer indie game that pioneered networked 3D deformable terrain for children’s audiences, reflecting a hands-on maker mindset. Trained with BA/MA degrees in Mathematics from the University at Buffalo, he combines rigorous quantitative thinking with product instincts. Based in Changning District, he blends technical systems experience, entrepreneurial grit, and an uncommon mix of gaming and financial-data backgrounds.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA/MA, Mathematics, BA/MA, Mathematics at University at Buffalo
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Github Skills (110)
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godot9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
haltingstate/secp256k1-go
Nov 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:72 commits, 2 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 2 months
golangcryptographysecp256k1bitcoin
kk-digital/open_clip
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
An open source implementation of CLIP.
Contributions:2 pushes, 8 issues in 2 years 4 months
deep-learningclip
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