Spencer Thompson
Senior Engineering Manager at Mimic
California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSpencer Thompson is a Senior Engineering Manager based in California with 10 years of experience specializing in computer vision and machine learning. He has progressed from research and internships into senior engineering and management roles at startups and scale-ups, including multiple positions at Mimic and DNAnexus, where he bridged hands-on development and team leadership. Spencer’s background blends a formal Computer Science and Statistics foundation from UC Santa Cruz with practical product-facing ML work at companies like Cogniac and Joy the App. He’s adept at taking vision models from prototype to production, pairing algorithmic insight with systems-level engineering and delivery. Known for promoting cross-functional collaboration, he frequently moves between individual contribution and people management to unblock teams and accelerate outcomes. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent career path within the Bay Area AI ecosystem, giving him strong domain context for applied computer vision problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (13)
keras8
object-detection6
mask6
segmentation6
tensorflow5
graph-convolutional-networks5
deep-learning5
graph5
faster-rcnn3
mask-rcnn3
instance-segmentation3
python2
issue-tracking1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Spencerkt/Spencerkt.github.io
Aug 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
reactnextjswork-experience
Spencerkt/HealthDeck
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 8 days
pythonpython3code-a-thon
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.