Donald Szeto
Co-Founder & CEO at FirsthandVC
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolDonald Szeto is a founder and technology executive with 13 years of experience building AI platforms, deep learning systems, and music-focused products from idea to acquisition and scale. He co-founded PredictionIO (acquired by Salesforce), served as a deep learning platform architect at Salesforce Einstein, and now leads Bovo Music as CEO, blending ML expertise with music and Web3 product work. His background spans chip-to-cloud engineering—from ASIC physical design at NVIDIA to authoring a Manning book on designing deep learning systems—giving him rare fluency across hardware, infrastructure, and applied ML. A hands-on operator, he has started multiple ventures (including real-world virtual asset applications at Aftermint) and mentors founders through FoundersHK while investing as an LP at FirsthandVC. Based in Cupertino, he is an early adopter of multimedia standards like MPEG-4 and combines academic training from Berkeley and Stanford with practical open-source and entrepreneurial impact. He’s notable for translating low-level GPU and hardware insights into scalable ML platforms and creative consumer products in music and Web3.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's Degree Electrical Engineering, Master's Degree Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (124)
prediction-model10
python10
mlops10
deep-learning10
big-data10
sdk10
transformer10
nlp10
data-science10
scala10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
predictionio10
machine-learning10
template-engine10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/predictionio-sdk-php
Mar 2013 - Sep 2018
PredictionIO PHP SDK
Contributions:46 commits, 4 comments in 5 years 7 months
phpphp-sdksdk
apache/predictionio-template-ecom-recommender
Apr 2015 - May 2017
PredictionIO E-Commerce Recommendation Engine Template (Scala-based parallelized engine)
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 1 month
template-enginedataminingcommercescala-templaterecommendation
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