Eli Bressert
Member at South Park Commons
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolEli Bressert is a seasoned AI and scientific computing entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience translating research-grade ideas into production-grade products. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he founded and scaled Origin into a multimillion-dollar, AI-augmented luxury travel business and now advises and builds reasoning systems and agent architectures through Algorithmic Productions and South Park Commons. His background spans hands-on data science and platform leadership roles at Netflix, Convoy, Stitch Fix, and Apple, where he led teams that operationalized ML and analytics at scale. A former astrophysicist and PhD from the University of Exeter, Eli is also an active open-source builder—co-creating widely used astronomy Python tools APLpy and ATpy—bringing uncommon depth in scientific software and visualization. He specializes in bridging hard science and product, helping companies move from experimentation to reliable AI in production while assembling teams that ship. Colleagues note his knack for pressure-testing moonshot ideas into pragmatic roadmaps that survive real-world constraints.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics at University of ExeterBachelor of Science (BSc), Astronomy, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Astronomy at University of Hawai‘i System
Dutch, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
text-editor9
database8
astrodynamics8
science8
astrology8
astrophysics8
orbital-mechanics8
visualization8
core-library8
astronomy8
postgresql7
mysql7
rust-lang7
displays7
dashboard7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ebressert/ScipyNumpy_book_examples
Jun 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
python-codepythonnumpyscipypython3
stitchfix/Algorithms-Notebooks
May 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 months
pythonjupyter-notebooknotebooksjupyterjupyter-notebooks
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