Henry Minsky
Chief Technology Officer at Leela AI
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolHenry Minsky is a veteran technology leader and current CTO at Leela.AI, bringing over 12 years of documented experience and decades of deep engineering and research background. He has led server-side and systems work at Google/Nest and earlier held research and consulting roles at Xerox PARC, MIT AI Lab, and Keio University, blending academic rigor with product-driven execution. Henry specializes in building intelligent monitoring and automation for complex processes, translating research ideas into production-grade systems. His career spans startups and large organizations, including founding Universal Access Inc. and architecting software at Laszlo Systems, which reflects both entrepreneurial grit and systems-level craftsmanship. Known for a hacker’s curiosity—summed up on GitHub as "Hackito ergo sum"—he pairs hands-on coding instincts with strategic leadership. Based in Newton, Massachusetts, he brings a rare combination of long-term research perspective and practical CTO experience to scaling AI-driven operations.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
SM, SM at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Japanese, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (145)
python10
ddt10
face-recognition10
midas10
retrocomputing10
error-correction10
virtual-memory10
face-detection10
segmentation10
visual-recognition10
teco9
object-detection9
computer-vision9
annotations9
reed-solomon9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hqm/PBox
May 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:86 commits, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
hqm/rscode
Jul 2015 - Oct 2021
Reed-Solomon encode/decode error correction library, in ANSI C
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
reed-solomonsolomonencodedecodecorrection
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