Justin 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 University
Bachelor of Arts - BA Political Science and Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Political Science and Public Policy at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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Justin Bennington - Principal Engineer at Actual Computer, Inc.