Ethan Petersen
Member Of Technical Staff at Decart
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Petersen is a Member of Technical Staff based in San Francisco with 11 years of software engineering experience spanning startups and product-driven scaleups. As co-founder of smileML, he helped build video-based analytics that use emotion recognition to turn sales calls into actionable insights, blending ML research with product execution. He’s moved between hands-on engineering and developer advocacy roles at Crusoe and now contributes to systems work at Decart, showing comfort across product, platform, and developer-facing roles. Ethan began in research and internships at institutions like Rose-Hulman and Tesla, and has pursued PhD-level study in computer science, signaling a strong foundation in theory as well as practice. Colleagues would describe him as an entrepreneurially minded engineer who translates experimental models into shipping features. A subtle throughline in his career is bridging human-centered signals (emotion, behavior) with scalable engineering to improve real-world outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Progress towards Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (on leave), Computer Science, Progress towards Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (on leave), Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (3)
chrome1
chrome-extension1
speech1
Github contributions (5)
e6-1/Avalanche
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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