Leo Hentschker
CTO at Column
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolLeo Hentschker is a technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building data-driven products focused on public interest information. Since 2019 he has led engineering at Column, scaling teams and systems that surface civic data and hiring across multiple disciplines. His background blends applied research and product engineering—from coauthoring a physics paper on particle aggregation to teaching functional programming at Harvard—bringing rigor to practical system design. Earlier roles include technical leadership at Quorum Analytics where he built scraping, DevOps, and NLP capabilities, and research consulting at Quantopian. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and an engineering manager, he excels at turning complex data problems into reliable, production-ready services. Based in Washington, D.C., he pairs a Harvard mathematics degree with a track record of shipping impactful civic-tech software.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at Harvard University
English, French, German
Github Skills (82)
legaltech10
quantitative10
government-data10
zipline10
svd10
searchable10
brain-computer-interface10
pythonic9
science9
trading9
azure-functions9
converter9
algorithmic-trading9
financial9
ocaml9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
leohentschker/vslint
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
Use AI to enforce UI/UX rules in your web app
Contributions:153 PRs, 206 pushes, 147 branches in 3 months
leohentschker/courtlistener
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
A fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings.
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 months
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