Stephen Gou
Cofounder at First Day Entertainment
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Gou is a seasoned tech leader and cofounder with 11 years of experience building ML-driven products and multiplayer games from prototype to production. He helped found and scale Cohere’s ML team as a founding engineer, and now leads AI-enabled game development at First Day Entertainment, blending foundation-model expertise with real-time interactive systems. His background spans AAA game shipping (Rise of the Tomb Raider), VR multiplayer leadership (PokerStars VR), and low-level rendering and shader work, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency across graphics, systems, and ML. Known playfully on GitHub as a "Transformer babysitter," he pairs hands-on model stewardship with pragmatic engineering for on-device and production inference. Educated in mathematics, graphics, and machine learning at Duke, Penn, and Toronto, he thrives at the intersection of research and product, often optimizing hard engineering trade-offs that aren’t obvious to non-specialists. Based in Los Angeles, he focuses on shipping compelling user experiences that leverage state-of-the-art AI.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Mathematics, B.S Mathematics at Duke UniversityMScAC Computer Science Machine Learning, MScAC Computer Science Machine Learning at University of TorontoMSE Computer Graphics and Game Technology, MSE Computer Graphics and Game Technology at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
python6
science6
conversations5
github-app5
sdk5
pandas5
machine-learning5
api4
data-science4
data-analysis4
slack4
ethereum3
slack-integration3
reinforcement-learning2
dqn2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stephengou/Data-Science-Projects
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
Data Science Projects
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
data-analysispythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learning
stephengou/WebGL-Particle-System
Nov 2014 - Sep 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
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