Caelean Barnes
Co-Founder CEO at Gauge
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaelean Barnes is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building product-focused web and AI experiences, currently steering Gauge as Co-Founder/CEO to help brands surface in ChatGPT and other AI answers. He previously served as a founding engineer at Standard Metrics and has full-stack experience across Noble.AI, Carta, and Roku, where he shipped user-facing features that measurably increased adoption and automated operational flows. Trained in computer science with a cognitive science minor from UCSD and a semester at VU Amsterdam, he blends systems thinking with user-centered product instincts. Early research at UCLA on Named Data Networking and a history of shipping search, migration, and investor tools reveal a curiosity for both infrastructure and product impact. Based in San Francisco, he combines startup grit with hands-on engineering across backend, frontend, and ML-adjacent product integrations.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Minor in Cognitive Science, B.S. Computer Science Minor in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego Jacobs School of EngineeringSemester Abroad Special Studies in Computer Science, Semester Abroad Special Studies in Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Los Gatos High School
Github Skills (48)
dependency-management10
monitoring10
error-logging10
static-code-analysis10
sentry10
monitor10
python10
django10
open-source10
feature-flags10
apm10
package10
monorepo10
crash-reports10
rust10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gauge-sh/chatpdb
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024
Chat with your Python debugger
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 50 pushes in 7 months
aichat-gptclidebuggerdeveloper-tools
caelean/livelist
Oct 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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