Summary
Diego Oppenheimer is a serial entrepreneur and AI product leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling ML companies, most notably founding Algorithmia (acquired by DataRobot) and later serving as EVP of MLOps at DataRobot. Based in Seattle, he blends deep product and engineering expertise with investor and board roles across startups focused on MLOps, dataset tooling, and generative AI safety (co-founding Guardrails AI and advising Hyperparam). He mentors founders as a venture partner at Work-Bench and runs technical advisory and investing work for early-stage ventures, regularly stepping into CEO-in-residence and strategic director roles. Diego’s background includes product leadership on the original Power BI/Excel BI teams at Microsoft and an MS in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon, giving him a rare mix of enterprise BI, ML lifecycle, and startup execution experience. He’s currently “cooking up something new” at AI Tinkerers while teaching and advising at Stanford GSB, signaling a move from operator-founder to ecosystem architect.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Information Systems Managment - Data Analytics, MS, Information Systems Managment - Data Analytics at Carnegie Mellon University
International Baccalaureate, Science, International Baccalaureate, Science at The British Schools of Montevideo
English, Spanish