Eric Altendorf
Founder at General Wisdom Co
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Altendorf is a founder and seasoned software leader based in San Francisco with a multi-decade track record building production ML, knowledge representation, and search systems. He led and scaled R&D teams at Google—spanning machine intelligence, knowledge engines, and KG-augmented QA models—and shipped foundational entity and ranking prototypes that influenced modern answer boxes and ranking experiments. More recently he moved into startups, founding AI and e-commerce ventures and contributing hands-on backend engineering to notable open-source tooling like the Chia plotting manager plotman. Eric combines deep research chops (Master’s in Machine Learning) with product-first execution, routinely bridging embeddings, retrieval, and schema automation to solve real-world QA and availability problems. Colleagues would describe him as an engineer who still dives into core logic and daemon threads while steering strategy as CEO.
5 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Machine Learning, Master's degree, Machine Learning at Oregon State University
Github Skills (11)
scheduling10
algorithms10
process-management10
sched10
python10
scheduler10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
yaml8
yml-configuration8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ericaltendorf/plotman
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
Chia plotting manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 146 commits, 52 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the plotman project, which manages Chia plotting jobs. The commits indicate the user worked on the core logic for managing and scheduling plotting processes. The changes involve modifying job initialization, status reporting, and the daemon thread for automated job initiation. Furthermore, the user refactored code for daemon threads and added configuration options related to plotting parameters.
chiaplotting
ericaltendorf/beancount
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.
Contributions:22 PRs, 30 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
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