Justin Swaney
Co-Founder & CTO at Samply
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJustin Swaney is a founder and technical leader with nine years of experience building products at the intersection of audio collaboration and computational science, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of Samply in Cambridge. He holds a PhD from MIT and a BS in Chemical Engineering from UW–Madison, and has translated deep academic training into applied roles from computational biology at Fulcrum Therapeutics to mentoring student research as an assistant professor. Justin favors solving computational problems born from scientific curiosity, combining systems thinking with hands-on engineering to prototype how things should be and then make them real. He brings a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach—pairing machine learning and signal processing insights with product instincts—and is motivated by lifting others and practical impact beyond the lab. An uncommon detail: his background ranges from assembly-line upholstery to teaching Matlab to chemical engineers, reflecting a pragmatic, hands-on ethos that informs his leadership and product work.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyChemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (89)
playback10
chunked9
vod9
video-streaming9
operation9
drm9
metadata9
player9
zarr9
video-player9
mse9
n-dimensional9
scheduler8
javascript8
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jmswaney/blog
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
jmswaney/thesis
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:46 commits, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.