Eric Low
Founder And Principal at Catalyst AI
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Low is a founder and principal software engineer with 8 years in senior leadership plus a long track record of hands-on engineering dating back to early scientific roles. He blends a bench-chemist mindset with product and platform expertise, leading teams to measurable outcomes like $100M+ contract wins, 50% eCommerce growth, and drastic developer productivity improvements. As founder of Catalyst AI he advises executives on AI-driven contract analysis and runs gen-AI workshops while also acting as fractional CTO to position startups for Series A. At Marin Software he scaled engineering organizations, drove CI/CD and onboarding transformations, and architected high-throughput billing and platform systems across Java, Python, Kafka and cloud stacks. He values strong relationships over budgets and favors pragmatic, will-driven delivery—often surfacing domain knowledge from his scientific past to solve complex engineering problems. Based in Oakland, he combines strategic counsel with frequent hands-on prototyping using modern ML tools like Anthropic Claude and FastAPI.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at California State University - East Bay
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Github Skills (8)
kotlin6
countdown-timer6
picasso6
android-studio6
android-gradle-plugin6
android-recyclerview6
android6
adapter6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ReactExpert/React-calculator
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
ReactExpert/ReactExpert.github.io
Aug 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:193 commits, 172 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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