Justyna Zander
Board And Executive Advisor, Founder at Stealth-Mode Startup in AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJustyna Zander is a transformative AI and autonomous-systems leader with 12 years of experience scaling teams and delivering cost-optimized breakthroughs across automotive and safety-critical domains. She has led global organizations at NVIDIA and Ford, co-invented standards like ASAM OpenSCENARIO 2.0, and built simulation and validation platforms projected to reduce development and testing costs by up to 10x. As founder and board advisor in stealth AI ventures, she has driven 5x client growth and advised C-suite and investors on strategies for a $1B+ portfolio. Her background blends deep technical research—PhD in EE/CS and postdoc work at Harvard—with hands-on productization, patents, and regulatory-facing reports such as NVIDIA’s Self-Driving Car Safety Report. A recognized speaker and IEEE/ACM/SAE senior member, she pairs academic rigor with executive leadership trained at Berkeley Haas. Less obvious: she secured U.S. permanent residency via the EB-1A route early in her career, underscoring a track record of recognized, extraordinary technical impact.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Leadership, Executive Leadership at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessBSc Environmental Protection and Management, BSc Environmental Protection and Management at Gdańsk University of TechnologyBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Applied Sciences in Elblag (Poland)PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinDiploma Multidisciplinary Leadership in Europe, Diploma Multidisciplinary Leadership in Europe at Studienkolleg zu Berlin
English, German, Polish, Russian, Italian
Github Skills (11)
agent8
artificial-intelligence8
cli8
chatgpt7
developer-tools7
openai7
gpt7
llm6
simulink1
collaboration1
hyperloop1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
justynazander/SmartEmergencyResponse
Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 82 commits, 6 pushes in 6 months
justynazander/MiLEST
Nov 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 1 tag in 9 months
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