Christopher Pondoc
Founding Member Of Technical Staff at Simile
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Pondoc is a founding member of technical staff and software engineer with nine years of experience building research-driven products and systems across startups, enterprise, and academic labs in the San Francisco Bay Area. He bridges applied AI and systems engineering—contributing to Stanford research groups (SAIL, HCI, Intelligent Systems) while shipping production software at companies like Coinbase, Splunk, and Simile. A serial early-stage contributor, he’s worked in venture and founder roles (Vita EDO, University Founder Fellow at Unusual Ventures) and has hands-on data and infrastructure experience from SRI and the National Cancer Institute. Currently completing MS and BS studies in Computer Science at Stanford with a reinforcement learning tutorial at Oxford, he combines rigorous academic training with practical product delivery and an appetite for translating research prototypes into deployed systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Tutorial in Reinforcement Learning, Study Abroad Tutorial in Reinforcement Learning at University of OxfordMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Tagalog
Github Skills (33)
emr10
couchdb10
redux10
tsne10
pouchdb10
react10
javascript9
bioinformatics9
mri9
binder9
frontend9
typescript8
open-access6
react-components6
journal6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cpondoc/cs140e-24win
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
all class materials for 140e
Contributions:49 pushes in 2 months
sisl/PyroRL
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
An RL environment made for wildfire evacuation.
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 9 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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