Melanie Plaza
Chief Technology Officer at AE Studio
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelanie Plaza is a Chief Technology Officer with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack products, Web3 platforms, and production AI systems from Los Angeles. At AE Studio she leads frontier AI alignment research, shapes AI strategy, and oversees delivery of data-driven products while maintaining a developer-first approach. Her background spans mobile and web apps, Solidity-based crypto utilities, machine learning (TensorFlow/Keras), and self-driving car engineering study, enabling her to bridge research, product, and engineering teams effectively. A former founder and early-stage CTO, she combines growth-hacking instincts with deep technical fluency across NodeJS, React/React Native, GraphQL, Python, and blockchain stacks. Unusually for a CTO, her path started in biology and bioinformatics at Yale, giving her an interdisciplinary curiosity that informs rigorous, empirically driven product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Rainforest Management Studies in Australia and New Zealand, Study Abroad Rainforest Management Studies in Australia and New Zealand at The School for Field StudiesNanodegree Self Driving Car Engineer, Nanodegree Self Driving Car Engineer at UdacityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology at Yale UniversityThe Bronx HS of Science
Github Skills (30)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mplaza/spree_stripe_connect
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 8 months
agencyenterprise/quokka-api
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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