Tommy He is an AI researcher and founder with 11 years of engineering experience, currently working on reasoning-focused research at Tufa Labs after founding Clarum (YC W24) and serving as its CTO for two years. He combines startup leadership with hands-on systems work—from low-latency C++ market connectors at Tower Research to Go backends and privacy-preserving knowledge graph work at Optable. His background in math and CS from McGill and cryptography research informs a rigorous approach to model reasoning and secure data handling. Equally comfortable shipping production services on AWS and prototyping advanced AI research, he’s recruited top talent in SF-grade roles and prefers in-person collaboration for high-leverage builds. A pragmatic founder-researcher, he focuses on translating cutting-edge reasoning techniques into deployable products for institutional clients.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor of Science - BS Honors Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Honors Mathematics and Computer Science at McGill University
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