Matthias Heller
Co-Founder at Lightly
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Heller is a founder and product-minded operator with five years of experience building ML data tooling; he co-founded Lightly (YC S21) to help companies curate vision datasets and improve model performance. Based in San Francisco, he blends a strong business and strategic management background from HEC Paris and St. Gallen with technical grounding in economics and computer science from Harvard and a certificate in Data Science & AI from École Polytechnique. His early career spans consulting, venture and corporate finance roles, giving him a rare fluency across go-to-market, fundraising and data-driven product development. At Lightly he focuses on turning research-grade ML problems into user-friendly data workflows—an inclination reflected in his choice to scale a niche but high-leverage area of the ML stack. Colleagues describe him as curious and network-oriented, frequently connecting ideas and people to accelerate product momentum.
4 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor’s Degree Business Administration and Management General at University of St.GallenMSc. Strategic Management, MSc. Strategic Management at HEC ParisY CombinatorCertificate Data Science & Artificial Intelligence for Business, Certificate Data Science & Artificial Intelligence for Business at École PolytechniqueEconomics & Computer Science, Economics & Computer Science at Harvard University
German, English, French, Russian, Italian
Github Skills (12)
contrastive-learning10
self-supervised-learning9
unsupervised-learning8
semi-supervised-learning8
supervised-learning8
computer-vision7
transfer-learning7
pytorch6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
python6
active-learning6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
lightly-ai/lightly
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
A python library for self-supervised learning on images.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
pytorchpython-librarysupervised-learningpythonsupervised
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