Steve Madere
CTO, Co-Founder at Paper Watch
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Madere is a seasoned technology executive and serial founder who has built high-performance engineering teams and shipped scalable products across search, fintech, SaaS, and consumer mobile domains. He co-founded Deja (later acquired by Google as Google Groups) and has repeatedly turned early-stage ideas into production systems, from HFT platforms to music and wine recommendation engines. As VP of Engineering for AI and Data Insights at GLG he grew an AI/ML org and helped quadruple AI-sourced revenue through advanced NLP, collaborative filtering, and entity recognition. Now CTO and co-founder at Paper Watch, he focuses on bringing generative AI, RAG, and customized LLM agents into business workflows while remaining a hands-on engineer and architect. His academic background in physics underpins a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to product and systems design, and he’s known for rapid performance recoveries that deliver 10x–100x improvements.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at The University of Texas at AustinUniversity of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (119)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
vim10
deep-learning10
nvim10
todoist10
coc-nvim10
transformer10
nlp10
debugging10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stevemadere/hobo_carrierwave
Jan 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 5 months
stevemadere/hobo
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 7 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrubybuilderweb-app-builder
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