Michael Quinlan
Entrepreneur In Residence (2nd Term) at Sutter Hill Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Quinlan is an entrepreneur and machine perception leader with 14 years of experience building robotics, ML, and analytics systems from research to product. He has led perception and semantics teams at Google X/Everyday Robots, co-founded and scaled ML ventures (Bench Computing) out of Sutter Hill Ventures, and is now in his second EIR term focusing on robotics and agentic systems. Equally comfortable as an IC, technical lead, manager, and founding engineer, he has shipped end-to-end systems spanning stereo and lidar pipelines, vision+language models, and large-scale cloud services for payments and robotics. His background mixes academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on startup execution, including deploying ML fairness initiatives and leading low-level perception work for real-world robots. Based in the Bay Area, he’s motivated by building technologies that move, reason, and improve decision-making—often taking ideas from DARPA-style research to production-grade products.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Newcastle
English
Github Skills (58)
python10
pydantic-v210
android-sdk10
validation10
starlark10
bazel-rules10
sdk10
clover10
pip10
pypi10
data-science9
flex9
pytorch9
kotlin9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
michael-quinlan/ut-sse
Mar 2012 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 9 years 4 months
michael-quinlan/jupyter-bazel
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Example of using bazel deps in a jupyter notebook
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 7 months
bazeljupyter-notebooknotebookstarlarkkubernetes
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