Spencer Burleigh
Board Member at Pareto.AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Burleigh is a founder, operator, and board member with nine years of experience building technology-driven businesses that bridge digital and physical infrastructure. He co-founded Rent the Backyard (YC S19), scaling it to a $10M contracted revenue run rate while pioneering factory-built ADUs, and has since served as CFO, advisor, and board member at startups focused on AI, housing, and hard tech. A Carnegie Mellon-trained engineer and early e-commerce entrepreneur, he brings hands-on product, operational, and financial rigor—having reduced costs in ML systems and helped pivot Pareto.AI into a leading, ethics-centered LLM training data company. Known for obsessing over systems that make organizations and societies run better, he combines startup grit with a long-term view on rebuilding foundational infrastructure. An ability to monetize niche markets (from selling camping fuel to arbitraging textbooks) hints at a practical, opportunistic approach to scaling complex ventures.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Summer 2019 Batch: Rent the Backyard, Summer 2019 Batch: Rent the Backyard at Y CombinatorPhillips Exeter AcademyStatistics & Computer Science, Statistics & Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (7)
markdown10
open-source10
javascript10
dsa-algorithm9
appwrite8
programming-tools4
css1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sburl/PricePoint-Public
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
sburl/36-350-public
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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