Samuel Deutsch
Founder, CEO & Chairman at SAVANT
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Deutsch is a founder and CEO who blends a decade of entrepreneurial and investment experience with a background in luxury hospitality and real estate finance. As founder of SAVANT and creator of OUTOFHAND.ai, he leads the integration of AI, computer vision and AR to redefine personalized beauty and hyper-realistic digital self-expression. He previously managed development and operations at Capella Hotels & Resorts and advised major hospitality transactions after starting his career in real estate investment banking. Samuel holds dual honors from UC Berkeley (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and applies a historian’s rigor and a business strategist’s foresight to anticipate cultural and market shifts. He builds multi-disciplinary teams with top AI talent—including contributors to OpenCV—and focuses on making advanced technology empowering and accessible. Based in New York, he balances creative product vision with proven capital and brand-building experience across hospitality, travel and tech.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), History, 3.9 GPA; Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, Bachelor of Arts (BA), History, 3.9 GPA; Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Github Skills (26)
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linux9
cross-platform8
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simulator7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Quantx/dgnsdk
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Data General Nova Software Development KIt
Contributions:188 commits, 2 PRs, 171 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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Quantx/Phreaknet
Nov 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:136 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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