Michael Farrell
Co-Founder And CTO at Transcend
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Farrell is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of engineering experience building privacy-first infrastructure at Transcend in San Francisco. He blends full-stack web development, machine learning, and data modeling with rigorous academic training from Harvard (AB/SM in Computer Science and Statistics) and five teaching fellowships. His background spans automated high-throughput biology work—automating FISSEQ and neural drug development at the George Church lab—to quantitative risk modeling and derivative automation at Apollo Global Management. Michael is comfortable moving between production systems and probabilistic modeling of high-dimensional data, turning research-grade techniques into reliable, scalable products. He brings an unusually interdisciplinary lens—combining computational biology, finance, and privacy engineering—that informs pragmatic architectures for sensitive data.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Conard High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Harvard University
French, Latin
Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
ui-components10
testing10
command-line-interface10
e2e10
isolation10
jsx10
browser10
react-testing-library10
dynamodb10
html10
imports10
d110
json10
oracle-db10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
transcend-io/logger
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Transcend browser logger
Contributions:16 reviews, 3 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
browsertranscendloggerloggingbrowser-logger
transcend-io/consent-manager-ui
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Transcend's Consent UI
Contributions:118 reviews, 65 commits, 151 PRs in 1 year 2 months
consenttranscendprivacy
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