Christian Welling
Investment Associate
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Welling is an investment associate and former founder with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning software, robotics, and hardware engineering. He has led firmware and algorithm development for safety-critical medical devices, built production-ready backend and control systems, and founded an AI-powered marketing startup that doubled its team while shipping a generative-AI driven product. Comfortable at the intersection of product, engineering, and fundraising, he combines hands-on coding (C++, Python, Flask, React) with investor-facing strategy at Berkeley Venture Capital and entrepreneurial consulting. His background includes advanced robotics and ML training plus practical experience in automotive and aerospace internships (Tesla, SpaceX), giving him a rare blend of system-level engineering and commercial insight. Notably, he drove a near-provisional-patent signal amplification algorithm integrated into clinical PCR trials, illustrating his ability to translate novel technical work into real-world impact. Based in Los Angeles and currently pursuing an MBA at Haas, he pairs deep technical credibility with emerging investment and business leadership.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Robotics Engineer Nanodegree, Robotics Engineer Nanodegree at UdacityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessML Engineering Computer Science, ML Engineering Computer Science at FourthBrainHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Loyola High School of Los AngelesMasters of Engineering (MEng) Mechanical Engineering, Masters of Engineering (MEng) Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
English, Danish, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
capstone8
system-integration6
self-driving-car2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ChristianSAW/Fourthbrain
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Fourthbrain Assignments
Contributions:22 PRs, 41 pushes, 14 branches in 2 months
thunderbirdexplore
ChristianSAW/CarND-Capstone
May 2019 - May 2019
Capstone Project for Udacity's Self Driving Car Engineer. The project is focused on system integration.
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 13 days
capstoneself-driving-car-engineerudacityself-drivingfocused
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