Hayden Housen
Co-Founder & CTO at Sonauto
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHayden Housen is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of engineering experience, currently building Sonauto (YC W24), an AI music editor that converts prompts, lyrics, or melodies into full songs. Trained in computer science at Cornell, he blends hands-on ML research—publishing at NeurIPS—and practical production engineering from roles at Vocode and Ada, where he optimized intent classification and multilingual pipelines. Comfortable across Python, PyTorch, FastAPI, and full-stack stacks, he has demonstrated impact by improving model accuracy with minimal data and shipping latency-conscious voice automation systems. Based in Ithaca, he pairs academic rigor in NLP and transformers with startup execution, and brings an unusual mix of cybersecurity/CTF experience and music-AI product vision to building generative audio tools.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Pawling High SchoolBachelor's of Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science at Cornell University
German, Kurdish, Arabic, English
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Github Skills (162)
transformers10
python10
distilbert10
pocket10
datasets10
transformer-models10
deep-learning10
speech10
gpu10
foundation-models10
compression10
browser-history10
collaboration10
optimization10
rss10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HHousen/ai-respiratory-doctor
May 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 4 months
HHousen/hugo-resume
Dec 2018 - Feb 2023
A Hugo theme ported from startbootrap.com's resume template
Contributions:30 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
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