Stephen Kemmerling
Founder & CTO at Orca
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Kemmerling is a founder and CTO with 12 years of experience building production AI and infrastructure systems, currently leading Orca to deliver memory-driven MLOps that keep predictive models adaptable, auditable, and safe. His background spans applied ML and engineering leadership at Meta and climate-focused roles at Indigo, where he led data science and modeling for carbon and sustainability programs. Stephen combines deep technical training from Stanford in computational and mathematical engineering with hands-on startup experience, from founding consumer and civic apps to shipping geospatial AI at scale. He focuses on practical solutions to accuracy degradation, misbehavior, and mass customization, emphasizing observability and human-aligned control rather than black-box models. Notably, Orca’s approach replaces frequent retraining with interchangeable memory modules—an uncommon operational pattern that enables dynamic behavior changes without model churn. Based in Boston, he blends product-minded leadership with an engineer’s appreciation for auditable, principled systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
IPAMB.Sc. Computer Science (Mathematics minor), B.Sc. Computer Science (Mathematics minor) at Universität des SaarlandesMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University
English, German, French
Github Skills (37)
dispatch10
api9
angular8
react8
vue8
scala8
monix8
ionic8
javascript8
cats-effect8
ios7
css7
typescript7
android7
frontend7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kifi/franz
Feb 2014 - Jan 2017
Better Api for using SQS with Scala
Contributions:68 commits, 22 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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