Jack Collins
Co-founder & CTO at Ventura (YC W26)
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Collins is a founder and engineering leader with nine years building ML-powered products and SaaS that accelerate sales and healthcare workflows. As Co-founder & CTO at Ventura (YC W26) and former founding engineer at Develop Health, he helped scale a small team to $7M ARR and delivered medication access to ~200k patients per month. His background in NLP/LLM engineering at Roam Analytics and Parexel includes deploying enterprise LLM solutions and modernizing DevOps across dozens of services. Trained in machine learning at Imperial College and grounded in physics/statistics from Galway and UCSB, he blends rigorous research instincts with product-focused execution. Not obviously stated: he repeatedly moves models from prototype into production at company scale, bridging research, infrastructure, and revenue impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computing (Machine Learning), Master of Science - MS, Computing (Machine Learning) at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science - BS, Physics with Theoretical Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics with Theoretical Physics at University of GalwaySemester Abroad: Statistics, Physics & Computer Science, Semester Abroad: Statistics, Physics & Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
French, English
Github Skills (94)
fastapi10
parser10
python10
json-schema10
magenta10
data-parsing10
deep-learning10
vertex-ai10
opentelemetry10
gemma10
pydantic10
trace10
openai-api10
chatgpt10
validation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jackmpcollins/magentic
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Seamlessly integrate LLMs as Python functions
Contributions:56 releases, 13 reviews, 354 PRs in 1 year 8 months
agentagenticaichatbotchatgpt
jackmpcollins/neutron-star-magnetosphere
Jan 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 9 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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