Denise Kutnick
Co-Founder & CEO at Foundations
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDenise Kutnick is a product-driven engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling ML systems from ADAS to production GenAI. As Co-Founder & CEO of a stealth startup and former Head of MLSys Product at OctoAI (acquired by NVIDIA), she blends hands-on compiler and systems engineering with product strategy to make ML tooling performant and cost-efficient. Her teams have cut the cost of running open-source GenAI models by up to 80% versus major cloud vendors, and she’s driven adoption through open-source work on TVM, MLIR, and PlaidML. Denise pairs technical depth in C++/Python and deep learning compilers with executive delivery—leading 40-person programs and public talks to technical audiences of 100+. She has a strong academic foundation with a CS master’s from Georgia Tech and a history of published research in UX and AI venues. Beyond product and engineering, she’s focused on designing digital experiences that help people feel seen and heard.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University
English, Chinese, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
keras6
macos6
tensorflow6
python6
gpu6
nlp1
anonymize1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thevisionaries/thevisionaries.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:314 commits, 307 pushes in 2 months
deniseygrace/COT-4935-Group-7-Project
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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