Toryn Thompson
Tech Director at TreeHacks
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolToryn Thompson is a versatile Tech Director and full‑stack engineer with eight years of experience blending software, machine learning, and electrical engineering to deliver data‑driven products that solve real problems beyond trendy LLM wrappers. Comfortable in fast‑moving startup environments, Toryn has led teams, shipped production ML models and dashboards, and redesigned user flows to measurably improve conversion and engagement. They combine hands‑on engineering (React/TypeScript, Django, PyTorch) with product and UX instincts, creating strong stakeholder feedback loops that accelerate iteration. Notable wins include leading an AWS internship team to ~80% recidivism prediction accuracy in a short timeframe, designing FlowData’s competitive B2B analytics dashboard, and growing AI Camp’s community integration by 300%+. Based in Palo Alto and studying CS+EE at Stanford, Toryn balances technical depth with practical product leadership—and will happily discuss opportunities on a backpacking trip.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, CS + EE, Bachelor of Science - BS, CS + EE at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (92)
minecraft10
github-api9
backend9
plugin9
spigot9
server-side8
linux8
compose8
markdown8
webextension8
ubuntu8
bukkit8
chroot8
java8
debian7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zahtec/zahtec.com
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
zahtec/tellodji
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
A Python library for controlling Tello drones using the 1.3 or 2.0 SDK
Contributions:13 releases, 102 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
python-librarytellopythonsdkcontrolling
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