Sarah Barnekow
Founder & CEO at Arting AI
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Barnekow is a founder and product leader with 13 years of experience turning cutting‑edge AI research into delightful creative tools. As CEO of Arting AI she bootstrapped a zero-login platform to over 1M users across 150 countries in its first year, scaling to 85k DAU through viral creator communities and partnerships with Adobe Lightroom and Canva. Previously at Stability AI and IDEO CoLab she shipped real-time style transfer, multilingual UI frameworks, and AI-assisted storyboarding used by Netflix Animation, demonstrating a blend of technical rigor and design-led product thinking. Trained in HCI at Carnegie Mellon and Design Engineering at the University of Washington, she obsessively removes technical friction so creators can focus on why they make—often by making complex models feel invisible. An engaging speaker and Forbes Next 1000 alumnus, she combines academic depth with hands-on startup execution.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS, Design Engineering, BS, Design Engineering at University of WashingtonMS, Human-Computer Interaction, MS, Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (11)
thoughtworks5
api4
ruby3
ftps2
ftp1
listener1
slack1
sftp1
scp1
react1
webhooks1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sbarnekow/mingle_api_scripts
Oct 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 months
apithoughtworksrubyruby-example
sbarnekow/api-docs
Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
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