Julien Wetterwald
CTO at Wealthfront
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Wetterwald is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO at Wealthfront with 15 years of experience building scalable financial software from hands-on engineering to executive strategy. He returned to Wealthfront after early tenure and rose through principal and distinguished engineering roles, demonstrating deep institutional knowledge of its platform and product evolution. Trained at EPFL and Stanford in computer science, he combines rigorous academic foundations with practical systems design and operational discipline. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Julien excels at bridging product, engineering, and risk considerations typical of consumer fintech. Outside of work he channels the same precision into ambitions to race cars and one day run a Michelin‑starred restaurant, signaling a blend of technical rigor and creative drive.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at École polytechnique fédérale de LausanneMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (3)
php6
vim1
scala1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
wealthfront/kawala
Aug 2011 - May 2012
Wealthfront's software platform
Contributions:17 commits in 9 months
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