Maximo Gurmendez
Executive Advisor at Blend
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaximo Gurmendez is a technology entrepreneur, AI leader, and software engineer with 11 years of experience building teams and products across industry and academia from Boston and Montevideo. He has founded and scaled Montevideo Labs, served as SVP of Engineering and now advises Blend while co-founding Orbit.me, blending hands-on product engineering with executive strategy. As Director of a Data Science for Business BSc and long-time university professor, he translates research-grade ML into practical curricula and commercial solutions. His background spans early engineering roles at DataXu to leading cross-border startups, showing comfort with both low-level systems and high-level business strategy. Unusually, he balances active academic leadership with startup execution, making him fluent in mentoring talent, shaping data science programs, and shipping AI-driven products.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Management, Management at Harvard UniversityM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityEngineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at Universidad de la RepúblicaIntenational Baccalaureate, Intenational Baccalaureate at The British Schools of Montevideo
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
java8
dummy-data2
junit2
unit-testing1
database1
mocking1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mg-um/mastering-ml-on-aws
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:19 commits in 4 months
mgurmendez/jbool_expressions
Feb 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:2 branches in 3 years 3 months
javalogicpropositional-logicexpressions
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