Eugene Shao is a Caltech-trained software engineer and two-time founder with eight years of experience building AI-enabled products and infrastructure from internships at Citadel and Meta to co-founding mission-driven startups. He co-founded Athena to scale ethical, affordable AI for college applications (30k students across 150+ countries) and now leads Roadrunner out of Kleiner Perkins’ newest incubation, focused on putting revenue back in motion. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and operator, he’s shipped production systems in Business Messaging and Ads ML infra and has hands-on experience with embedded and scientific software from a JPL hyperspectral spectrometer project. Based in the Bay Area, Eugene blends deep technical chops with founder-level grit and a low-ego approach to building teams of talented collaborators.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
High School, High School at Longmeadow High School
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