Danielle Swank
Founder at SQRLS AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanielle Swank is a founder and machine learning leader based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building and scaling AI-first engineering teams and products. She has repeatedly bridged research and product as co-founder and Head of Engineering at Fomoro (and Fomoro Research), led foundation-model efforts at Persona AI, and recently launched SQRLS AI to commercialize that expertise. Her background spans hands-on engineering management at Planet and earlier UX-driven product work, giving her a rare mix of model research, production ML systems, and user-focused design sensibility. Danielle’s trajectory shows a pattern of turning exploratory research into operational products and startups, often stepping between technical leadership and company-building roles. Despite an arts education, she has steered technical teams for over a decade, suggesting strong creative problem-solving applied to ML and systems engineering. Based in the Bay Area, she combines entrepreneurial grit with deep applied-AI experience across the full lifecycle from prototypes to deployed foundation-model work.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Fine/Studio Arts, General, Fine/Studio Arts, General at University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Github Skills (2)
redis2
redis-client1
Github contributions (5)
fomorians/imagesearch
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 10 days
danielleswank/css-parallax-template
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
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