Jacob Ajit
Founder at Sentinel
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Ajit is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building products at the intersection of voice, NLP, and security from both product and technical angles. Based in San Francisco, he led AI/ML-focused engineering work as a Quantitative Software Engineer at Two Sigma and previously co-founded Congregate, a video collaboration platform that reached over 100k users and was successfully sold. His background includes hands-on systems and research roles—upgrading media pipelines at Tinder, building neural-network-driven fuzzing tools in cybersecurity, and solving combinatorial optimization problems at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory—reflecting a blend of applied research and production engineering. Now helming Sentinel, he combines startup instincts with rigorous engineering discipline and a knack for shipping scalable, secure ML-driven products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Economics at Harvard UniversityThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Github Skills (41)
intranet10
python9
herokuapp9
django9
tinder9
linear-programming8
optimization8
css8
operations-research8
ionic8
heroku8
combinatorial-optimization7
constraint-programming7
gurobi7
vehicle-routing-problem7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jacobajit/AlexaBot
Mar 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:210 commits, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
jacobajit/TJTinder
Nov 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:123 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reacttinder-clonejavascriptexpressnodejs
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