Fritz Heckel
Founding Engineer at Permanence
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFritz Heckel is a founding engineer and machine learning systems leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI and ML infrastructure across startups and enterprise teams. After grounding his career in robotics research, human-robot interaction, and decision-making during his PhD work, he has driven core ML platforms and annotated-data pipelines at ASAPP and now builds controlled, effective AI systems at Permanence. He brings deep search and ranking experience from roles at HERE and Bloomberg, pairing research rigor with hands-on engineering to move models from prototype to production. Comfortable working directly with Fortune 500 stakeholders, he focuses on reliable experimentation, scalable model services, and data tooling. Based in New York, he blends academic depth with practical system-building—and often applies behavior-based AI thinking to practical product problems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at CharlotteBA, Computer Science and Political Science, BA, Computer Science and Political Science at Swarthmore CollegeWoodberry Forest SchoolMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Finnish
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Github Skills (29)
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opencl9
pyzmq9
csharp9
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deep-learning9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
permanence-ai/oneDNN
Jun 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:16 PRs, 27 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
fwph/codepresenter
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:13 releases, 38 commits, 28 pushes in 8 months
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