Chad Lohrli
Founder at Techstars
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Lohrli is a founder and engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building AI, blockchain, and infrastructure products from NASA labs to San Diego startups. He currently leads Cadre AI, redesigning how companies operate with AI-driven processes, and runs SDx to grow the local AI builder ecosystem—having organized San Diego’s largest hackathon backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Qualcomm. His background spans federated ML and EHR work at Equideum Health, AI infrastructure and high-performance data pipelines, and early NASA sensor and IoT systems, showing a rare blend of product-facing ML engineering and embedded hardware experience. Chad is also active in Web3 community building (ETH SD) and mentors at Techstars, bringing both operator instincts and developer craftsmanship to scaling teams and developer ecosystems. An interesting throughline: he moves easily between low-level sensor hardware prototyping and deploying TB-scale cloud storage and streaming systems, enabling end-to-end solutions from edge to cloud.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of EngineeringComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Santa Monica College
French, Spanish
Github Skills (49)
nextjs9
typescript9
blockchain9
ethereum9
react9
chakra-ui8
python8
cryptography8
federated-learning8
pytorch8
secure-computation8
gatsby8
privacy-enhancing-technologies8
cml7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chadlohrli/YToracle
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 months
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chadlohrli/nomofomo-ethny
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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