Idan Mintz
Co-Founder And CTO at LightSource
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIdan Mintz is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of LightSource in San Francisco. He cut his teeth at Google across multiple roles and contributed to platform and mobile tooling early in his career, including work on Cordova plugins and service worker capabilities for iOS. Prior stints at X (the moonshot factory) and Microsoft reflect a track record of tackling ambitious, systems-level problems from prototype to ship. Trained in computer engineering with a physics minor from Georgia Tech, he blends low-level systems thinking with product-focused engineering. As a founder-CTO he pairs hands-on development with strategic technical leadership, steering teams through growth-stage engineering challenges. Colleagues would note his pattern of moving between elite R&D environments and startup building as a signal of both technical depth and practical execution.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering Minor: Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering Minor: Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (29)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
background-sync9
service-worker8
gitlab-ci8
docker-in-docker7
cordova7
cargo7
graphql6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MobileChromeApps/cordova-plugin-service-worker-geofencing
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 39 pushes, 2 tags in 1 month
MobileChromeApps/cordova-plugin-service-worker-push
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 24 pushes, 1 tag in 1 month
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