Josh Hedtke
Founder at Common Counsel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Hedtke is a founder and technologist with eight years of experience building ML-driven products and legal tech from New York. A JD candidate at Stanford Law who also earned an MS in Computer Science from Stanford, he blends deep technical expertise with legal training to tackle problems at the intersection of IP, compliance, and AI. He has led product and engineering teams at Gridspace, founded CarefulAI to build patent search tooling for attorneys, and now runs Common Counsel to further legal-technical innovation. Josh’s background spans hands-on ML engineering, customer-facing product leadership, and courtroom-adjacent legal internships, giving him a rare view into both technical implementation and legal workflows. He’s comfortable shipping production ML systems and translating attorney needs into technical requirements, and he brings an entrepreneurial streak evidenced by founding multiple startups after machine learning work and legal externships.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Juris Doctor (J.D.) at Stanford Law SchoolUniversity of California, Los AngelesMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (3)
kubecost5
helm4
kubernetes3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
j-hedtke/cs221-229
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
j-hedtke/recommender_system
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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