Justin Bowen is an engineer and creator with 15+ years building production software and leading distributed teams across AI, computer vision, and Rails ecosystems. He specializes in applied AI with real-world deployments—from OR-grade computer vision with Stanford Healthcare to on-farm animal monitoring for Cargill—and now publishes Rails-native AI tooling through his open-source Active Agent framework. Justin combines hands-on engineering (Python, PyTorch, CUDA, OpenCV, Ruby/Rails) with VC-facing tech due diligence on $100M+ deals, bridging product, ops, and investment risk. He’s led remote engineering orgs end-to-end and repeatedly moved research into clinical and agricultural production systems. An under-the-radar strength is shipping tight integrations between edge devices and cloud pipelines (Raspberry Pi to ONNXRuntime) that keep ML models practical at scale. Based in San Francisco, he also advises startups and speaks globally on AI and Ruby/Rails.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at College of San Mateo
Contributions:2 PRs, 77 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
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