Simanta Gautam
Co-Founder & CEO at Alpen Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimanta Gautam is an engineer-entrepreneur and MIT-trained computer scientist with 11 years of experience building production AI systems and cryptographic financial infrastructure. He founded Synapse Technology to deploy the first commercially used AI for security X-ray screening—raising venture and government funding and exiting to Palantir—then led edge AI and ML infrastructure post-acquisition. In 2022 he co-founded Alpen Labs to apply Bitcoin and zkSNARKs toward more efficient, globally accessible cross-border payments, savings, and credit rails. His background spans deep learning research in reinforcement learning and computer vision, practical ML at Microsoft, Amazon, Clarifai, and applied R&D at NASA and MIT labs. Based in New York, he blends scientific rigor with product-first execution and an interest in both “minds and machines,” aiming to elevate individual agency through infrastructure-level innovation. Notably, he has experience managing PI-level government contracts and assembling a patent portfolio that bridged research and deployed security products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Nepali
Github Skills (56)
python10
drones10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
ros10
mavlink9
autopilot9
robotics9
px49
rover9
machine-learning9
raspberry-pi9
gazebo-simulator8
qgroundcontrol8
ubuntu8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SimsGautam/AWS-deep-learning
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Installation scripts for CUDA, cuDNN, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc. on Ubuntu machines
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
cudamxnetcaffe2machinesgpu
SimsGautam/TabularSASR
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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