Brendan Fortuner
Head Of Engineering at Ambience Healthcare
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Fortuner is a Head of Engineering with 12 years of experience building production ML systems and platforms, currently leading development of an AI medical scribe at Ambience Healthcare to reduce clinician burnout and streamline EMR workflows. He previously co-founded the Machine Learning Platform at Cruise, anchoring self-driving car efforts with scalable data and model infrastructure. His background includes data and software engineering at Amazon where he worked on zero-click ordering, plus a sabbatical spent backpacking and sharpening ML skills through Kaggle collaborations with Jeremy Howard. Brendan is hands-on across backend and iOS hiring and execution, and contributes educational ML content—authoring a machine learning glossary that reflects his emphasis on clear, practical foundations. Based in San Francisco, he blends product-focused leadership with deep technical fluency in deploying ML into regulated, high-stakes domains.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
neural-network10
machine-learning10
linear-regression9
logistic-regression9
activation-function9
loss-functions9
calculus7
deep-learning6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bfortuner/ml-glossary
Apr 2017 - Jul 2022
Machine learning glossary
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:2 reviews, 65 commits, 92 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to a machine learning glossary project, demonstrating an understanding of machine learning concepts. The commits include initializing the repository, reorganizing files, and adding introductory content on neural networks, activation functions, and linear/logistic regression. The user also added content on calculus and loss functions.
data-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learningdeep-learning-tutorialglossary
bfortuner/labelml
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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