Josh Valdez
CTO at Nuanced
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Valdez is a seasoned software engineer and startup CTO with 14 years of experience building scalable infrastructure and AI developer tools, having led engineering at Uber, Gem, and co-founded Engines (YC W24). He specializes in distributed systems and production ML serving—at Uber he architected Hailstorm for load generation and automated a pipeline supporting thousands of online models at high QPS. As a founder he’s focused on making AI coding workflows practical for developers, and now leads platform strategy at Nuanced in San Francisco. He combines hands-on system design with team-building and teaching experience, having run onboarding courses for new engineers and developed graduate-level coursework. A Stanford CS alum, he uniquely blends large-scale reliability engineering with product-facing AI tooling.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Marcus High SchoolB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (19)
agent10
cli10
chatgpt9
artificial-intelligence9
llm9
openai9
developer-tools9
gpt9
foundry7
cloud-foundry7
python5
deriving5
neovim4
vim-plugin4
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jmvldz/jmvldz
Dec 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:63 commits in 1 year 4 months
jmvldz/mptcp-wireless-performance
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:24 commits in 6 days
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