Jacob Balma
Chief Executive Officer at Maxwell Labs Inc
Circle Pines, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Balma is a CEO and scientist who translates 15+ years of high-performance computing and parallel-algorithm expertise into commercial photonic cooling solutions for data centers. As founder and lead scientist at Maxwell Labs he’s commercializing a proprietary laser cooling approach that converts waste heat into light, enabling water-free, moving-part-free thermal management and energy recovery for AI and HPC workloads. His background as a performance engineer at Cray and HPE gives him deep experience optimizing scalable workflows and distributed ML training on supercomputers, while his academic training in theoretical physics and English sharpens both technical rigor and communication. An active contributor to the HPC and AI open-source community, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic product vision to push novel hardware–software co-design. Based in Minnesota, he’s building a world-class team across supercomputing, nanoscale heat management, and photonics to make sustainable, higher-performance computing practical at scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at University of Minnesota Duluth
Github Skills (39)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
baidu10
keras-tensorflow9
java9
keras9
ray8
cntk8
mpi8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jbalma/mesh-transformer-mpi
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 commits in 2 months
jbalma/pharml
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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