Hunter Brooks
Co-Founder at Ellipsis (YC W24)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHunter Brooks is a founder and software engineer with 9 years of experience building production-grade ML and developer tools, currently co-founding Ellipsis (YC W24), a DevTool that converts technical instructions into working, tested code and is installed in thousands of repositories. He previously applied ML to low-latency, distributed systems at Amazon—delivering measurable gains in ad performance and improving MLOps for forecasting—and has a track record of shipping scalable cloud-native systems from his early Capital One work to containerized microservices. Trained as a published astronomer, he brings rigorous scientific modeling and data-analysis skills to engineering problems, having authored research-grade software applied across dozens of observations. Hunter blends product-minded engineering with practical ML production experience, turning vague requirements into automated code reviews, PRs, and Slack-driven developer workflows. Based in New York, he pairs startup grit with enterprise experience and a habit of turning academic methods into reliable production tools.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Penn State University
English
Github Skills (139)
python10
jetbrains10
validation10
api10
dev-environment10
pydantic-v210
remote-development10
ai-chat10
angularjs10
ide10
openai10
zappa9
code-review9
llm-inference9
browser-automation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hbrooks/pathfinding
Dec 2016 - May 2020
Quantitative tool kit for estimating solutions of the Traveling Salesmen Problem.
Contributions:25 PRs, 94 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 5 months
travelingseabornpythontool-kitestimating
ellipsis-dev/TalkFormAI
Dec 2023 - Jun 2024
Web app to create and fill forms with chat.
Contributions:5 reviews, 29 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 months
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