John Whaley
Founder at Inception Studio Capital
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Whaley is a seasoned founder and technology leader with 25 years of experience building high-impact systems, from compiler research to privacy-preserving identity and AI security startups. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and began programming at age five, blending deep academic expertise in program analysis with hands-on product and engineering leadership. As founder of Redcoat AI (acquired by Textla) and UnifyID, and now CTO at Textla while leading Inception Studio and its investment arm, he repeatedly turns research-grade ideas into commercial products. He has taught and mentored at Stanford and Berkeley, bringing rare credibility across academia, startups, and venture. Notably, his Ph.D. thesis earned Stanford’s top thesis award and has influenced textbook treatments of pointer analysis, reflecting a career that spans both foundational research and pragmatic entrepreneurship.
25 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, M.Eng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (12)
corebluetooth5
homebrew5
swift-framework3
serialization3
bluetooth-low-energy3
futures2
swift2
bluetooth-le2
ios2
deserialization2
carthage2
cocoapods1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joewhaley/bddbddb
Jun 2004 - Aug 2007
Contributions:619 commits, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
joewhaley/joeq
Feb 2001 - Feb 2014
Contributions:1934 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 13 years 2 months
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