Bruno Bowden
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Getaround
Portola Valley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruno Bowden is a venture-backed technologist and investor who co-founded and manages Grep VC, focusing on early-stage industrial AI, robotics and semiconductor startups after a decade-plus career building safety-critical simulation and product teams. He previously led simulation at Aurora and managed engineering groups at Google (Enterprise Gmail, Google Earth), blending deep systems and graphics engineering with product-scale delivery. As an equity partner at Data Collective and an active angel, he’s led investments and board work spanning hardware-aware AI, autonomous vehicles and enterprise SaaS, and is Wayve’s largest personal investor. Bruno also led the 150-person volunteer effort to build the WHO COVID-19 app, coordinating engineering, diplomacy and GDPR compliance under pandemic constraints. A Cambridge computer science Double First graduate, he pairs hands-on coding experience (notably contributing to a popular Flutter COVID app) with an unusual public-facing profile—TED speaker and holder of a Tesla range record mentioned by Elon Musk.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of Cambridge
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
flutter-apps10
flutter-game10
dart10
firebase10
flutter10
ios9
android9
mobile9
android-developer9
android-developers9
api8
apim8
api-design8
pycharm6
apple-watch6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
WorldHealthOrganization/app
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
COVID-19 App
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 250 reviews, 154 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily contributed to the Flutter-based mobile application, addressing issues related to location permissions and connectivity, and refactoring the code to improve maintainability. They also worked on updating the app to the latest Flutter version (v1.22), which involved fixing numerous analysis issues. Furthermore, the user updated the app's dependencies, implemented build flavor support for Android, and made changes to endpoints based on the build flavor.
reactcovid-19-appappengine-javareact-nativefirebase
brunobowden/app
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
World Health Organization App
Contributions:11 PRs, 110 pushes, 35 branches in 19 days
healthworld-health-organization
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