Jason Mcghee
Head Of Product And Engineering, Palmata
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Mcghee is a seasoned engineer and startup CTO with 13 years of experience building developer-facing tools and ML systems from prototype to production. As Co-Founder and CTO of Writ and former Principal Machine Learning Engineer at DataRobot, he blends deep ML engineering expertise with hands-on product development. He co-built Cursor, a collaborative cross-platform SQL/Python IDE acquired by DataRobot, and has a strong background in device and consumer-facing engineering from his time at Pandora. Comfortable across the stack—front-end, back-end, embedded devices and ML pipelines—he excels at turning messy data and complex workflows into searchable, shareable developer experiences. Based in San Francisco and Berkeley‑trained, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with a practical focus on shipping reliable, collaborative tools.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (181)
python10
game-development10
agentic-ai10
recall10
swiftui10
react-component10
autonomous-agents10
ai10
swift10
gpt10
debugging10
artificial-intelligence10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
macos10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jasonjmcghee/viz-studio
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Build visualizations live!
Contributions:82 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
visualizations
jasonjmcghee/plock
Jan 2024 - Jun 2025
From anywhere you can type, query and stream the output of any script (e.g. an LLM)
Contributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
llmcross-platformollamagptstreaming
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