Ed Donner
Co-Founder & CTO at Simplified.Travel
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEd Donner is a technology leader and serial founder who blends deep fintech engineering experience with AI-driven talent discovery as Co-Founder and CTO of Nebula.io. He has led large engineering organizations at JPMorgan and built and exited talent-matching products at untapt, applying deep learning and proprietary LLMs to replace keyword hiring with semantic matching. Ed combines hands-on technical depth across Python/TensorFlow, cloud-native deployments and full-stack stacks with executive strategy as CTO for Wynden Stark and innovation lead at GQR. Based in New York, he is motivated by a human-centered vision—helping people find work that aligns with their Ikigai—and holds a Physics degree from Oxford, a background that underpins his analytical approach to product and algorithms. An engaging speaker and advisor, he now also consults on AI personalization for travel and continues to drive patented matching models that aim to raise workforce engagement.
1 year of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of Oxford
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
mongoengine6
python6
flask6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ed-donner/llm_engineering
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Repo to accompany my mastering LLM engineering course
Contributions:181 PRs, 253 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
ed-donner/choose_llm
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Companion code to my class Choosing the Right LLM
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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