Rand Arete
Head Of AI at Heroku
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRand Arete is a seasoned AI and product leader with 15 years of experience turning deep technology into developer-loved, trustable products across Heroku, GitHub, AWS, Vercel, Netlify, and HashiCorp. Currently Head of AI at Heroku, he has shipped platform, AI, and security primitives that scaled from early adopters to millions of engineers and led GitHub’s Code Search, Code Understanding, and ML efforts during the rise of transformer LLMs and Microsoft’s acquisition. He launched Heroku AI with managed inference and an agent framework, and concurrently builds CodeLift to improve AI code generation through structured context and typed-hole approaches. Rand runs fully distributed teams across four time zones by emphasizing clear goals, crisp interfaces, and lightweight rituals that make distance a strategic advantage. His background spans productizing data-intensive features, secure SaaS offerings, and probabilistic inference engines—an unusual mix of academic rigor and pragmatic productization rooted in early cognitive neuroscience research. Based in Denver, he pairs an ethos of leaving the world better than he found it with a knack for shipping practical, widely adopted developer platforms.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Southern California
French, Spanish, ruby, python, clojure, node.js, haskell
Github Skills (55)
swagger-node10
react-ssr9
vue-ssr9
vitejs9
rest-api8
react8
locker8
heroku-cli8
rest8
swagger8
server-side-rendering8
heroku8
nodejs7
javascript7
full-stack7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rand/ml-engineering
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Machine Learning Engineering Online Book
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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