Denise Draper
Founder Or Co-founder at Multiple Startups
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDenise Draper is a seasoned founder and technology leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience building products and teams from solo MVPs to organizations of 100 people. She has deep technical roots—Ph.D. in AI and a CS degree from Caltech—and a track record leading enterprise data platforms at Microsoft (SSIS, Data Quality, Master Data Services) as well as founding multiple startups across tech, consultancy, and youth STEM education. Comfortable toggling between strategy and coding, Denise repeatedly shapes vision, culture, and delivery while also doing freelance engineering work (and is, perhaps surprisingly, very skilled with WordPress). She is now focused on ventures that address climate and green technology and is open to co-founder, early hire, advisor, or volunteer roles that combine impact with product rigor.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D Artificial Intelligence at University of WashingtonCalifornia Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
1,143reputation
260kreached
18answers
11questions
Github Skills (127)
climate-model10
docstrings10
greenhouse10
atmosphere10
climate-science10
sustainability10
climate-change10
fastai9
libgit29
python9
gpu9
wysiwyg9
deep-learning9
tinymce9
nbdev9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
denised/LandCover
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:69 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
denised/generate-time-series
Feb 2015 - Nov 2022
Generate fake time series
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 years 10 months
time-series
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