Seth Kimmel
Founder at Sutro
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSeth Kimmel is a founder and engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building data, ML, and product infrastructure for early-stage startups and VC-backed ventures. He currently leads Sutro, a startup focused on scaling productivity, experimentation, and human discovery, after roles spanning product and engineering at Shaper Capital and hands-on data/ML consulting for companies founded by leaders like the creator of GitHub Copilot. Seth has architected data science platforms and go-to-market data engineering at firms like Contrary and Mapbox, combining practical production engineering with research-informed ML work from his Computational Science and Engineering master’s at Rice. Known for operating across product, M&A strategy, and technical implementation, he’s comfortable moving between high-level strategy and shipping core systems. He brings an investor-aware perspective to product engineering, informed by frequent collaboration with VCs and startups from pre-seed to Series B. An interdisciplinary background in computational math, mechanical engineering, and CS gives him a knack for turning messy data problems into scalable technical products.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computational Science and Engineering, Master's degree Computational Science and Engineering at Rice UniversityUndergraduate Studies in Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Economics, Undergraduate Studies in Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Economics at Lafayette College
Github Skills (78)
cloud-computing10
python10
operation10
metadata10
cost-optimization10
mlops10
deep-learning10
gpu10
serverless10
distributed-training10
job-scheduler10
multicloud10
scheduler10
llmops10
xpu10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sethkimmel3/roundtable.audio
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:68 commits, 1 comment in 8 months
sethkimmel3/vllm
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:47 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.