Justin Cranshaw
Co-founder, Chief Product Officer at Maestro AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Cranshaw is a product-focused technologist and founder with 12 years of experience building research-driven AI products and social computing systems. As Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Maestro AI, he blends academic rigor from a PhD in Societal Computing with hands-on startup experience to turn HCI research into practical, user-centered AI features. His prior roles at Microsoft Research and FUSE Labs include co-founding Calendar.help and shipping conversational scheduling assistants now integrated into Office, demonstrating a track record of taking prototypes to widely used products. Justin has incubated multiple startups, led machine learning tech transfer efforts that contributed to commercial security products, and navigated the hard lessons of pandemic-era retail experimentation. Based in Seattle, he frames product decisions with a thoughtful, human-centered perspective on AI amid the hype. Colleagues describe him as someone who quietly bridges deep research, product strategy, and pragmatic execution.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Columbia UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science Societal Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science Societal Computing at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA Math Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Math Computer Science at Skidmore College
Github Skills (1)
on-demand3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
utisz/ddCRP-Experiments
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 19 days
utisz/utisz.github.io
Jun 2017 - Dec 2024
My professional homepage
Contributions:7 PRs, 89 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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