Colin Prepscius
Founding Engineer at Persona AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Prepscius is a founding engineer and versatile software developer with roughly two decades of experience building products across games, education, finance, robotics, and machine learning. He combines hands-on engineering in iOS, Python, React and ML with leadership experience founding startups and shipping enterprise-grade systems for major financial institutions. At Samsung he developed robotics and tactile sensing research systems, and he recently joined Persona AI to build AI applications—continuing a pattern of moving between deep research and product delivery. Colin is the author of Stretchpaper, an infinite iPad note-taking/drawing app, and Spikeflow, a spiking neural network library for TensorFlow, signaling a long-standing interest in biologically inspired ML. Known for shipping practical prototypes—from DLT proofs of concept to distributed Python for trading grids—he thrives on interesting, interdisciplinary problems that bridge research and production. Based in New York, he enjoys projects that mix innovation with real-world impact.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (137)
json-parser10
memory-efficient10
python10
zero-copy10
cross-language10
javascript10
whisper10
mmap10
protobuf10
grpc10
json10
serializer10
java10
serialization10
binary-data10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
colinator/spikeflow
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
flexrobotics/roboflex
May 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:133 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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