Justin Bennington
Principal Engineer at Somewhere Systems
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Bennington is a Principal Engineer and founder-level operator based in New York with seven years of experience building AI-driven audio and realtime systems. He leads engineering at Actual Computer while also running Somewhere Systems as CEO, blending hands-on technical delivery with product and business leadership. His background spans voice AI, retrieval-based custom voice training, transformer-based audio classification, and realtime contact-center voice agents—skills honed across roles from Head of AI to Lead Engineer. Trained in audio engineering (MS) and with an early career in studio engineering at Warner Music, he brings rare domain depth in both signal chain craft and production-grade ML systems. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research and shipping, especially where low-latency audio pipelines and prompt engineering meet cloud-scale deployment.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Audio Engineering, Master of Science - MS Audio Engineering at Belmont UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Political Science and Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Political Science and Public Policy at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (41)
generative-art10
discord9
discord-bot8
machine-learning8
ml8
speech8
mistral-7b8
retrieval7
wikipedia7
agentic7
telegram7
text-to-speech7
chatbot7
pubmed7
crypto7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
somewheresy/S2ML-Generators
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Multiple notebooks which allow the use of various machine learning methods to generate or modify multimedia content
Contributions:48 commits, 4 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year
machine-learningmlgenerative-artvqgan-clipclip-guided-diffusion
justin-bennington/tactile-mix
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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