Don Pinkus
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDon Pinkus is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building product and research infrastructure at the intersection of ML, computer vision, and consumer platforms. Currently on a FAIR research team at Meta after leading ML and CV infrastructure for Reality Labs, he blends hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and product thinking to ship state-of-the-art models and developer tooling. Previously a product manager and CPO-level leader, he has a track record of driving growth and scaling teams at Meta and H1 and of building researcher-facing evaluation tooling at Cruise and Intel. As a former founder and CTO of Blockspring (acquired by Coinbase) he brings startup instincts and product design chops to large-scale engineering problems. Based in San Francisco with a multidisciplinary BA in economics, math, and biology from Vassar, he’s particularly interested in using technology to improve people’s lives and writes thoughtfully about career transitions into engineering. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he moves fluidly between research-grade model work and pragmatic product metrics, equally comfortable in code, UX, and org-level strategy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics, Math, Biology, BA, Economics, Math, Biology at Vassar College
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Github Skills (200)
threejs10
testing10
svg10
3d10
php-library10
spreadsheet10
html10
javascript-tools10
svelte10
augmented-reality10
web-components10
webxr10
reloading10
frontend10
python10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
donpinkus/genetic-algo-viz
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 2 months
donpinkus/mtg-deck-builder
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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