Summary
James Quintero is a founder and machine learning engineer with a decade of experience building AI-driven systems across finance, cloud, and healthcare. He led LLM data creation and fine-tuning at Google—boosting model accuracy from ~50% to ~90%—and has shipped full-stack production features at AWS and Google impacting hundreds of thousands of users monthly. As founder of Coco Quant Trading and Coco Computing Inc., he applies quantitative AI to predict and trade markets while also owning end-to-end product development. His background spans time-series forecasting, computer vision for medical imaging, DDoS detection, and chatbot creation, reflecting a rare combination of research-grade ML and practical engineering in Python, Java, and C++. Based in Sunnyvale with an MS in Computer Science from UC Irvine, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery and a knack for turning novel detection ideas into commercial features.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at San Francisco State University
Associate of Science (A.S.), Mathematics, Associate of Science (A.S.), Mathematics at Fullerton College
University of California, Irvine