William Bakst
Founder And CEO at Mirascope
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Bakst is a founder and CEO with a focused background in interpretable machine learning and a track record from Google’s Glassbox team to two startups he helped build. With an MS and BS in Computer Science from Stanford, he blends research-grade AI expertise and C++ systems engineering with hands-on product leadership. He moved quickly from internships at IBM and Google into research engineering and then into founding roles, signaling an ability to translate complex ML research into operational products. Based in Los Angeles, he leads Mirascope after co-founding SOTAI, demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and a calm, curious approach to hard technical problems. Notably, his early work on automated feature engineering at Google shows a practical bent for making models more interpretable and performant in production.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (32)
artificial-intelligence10
parser10
function-calling10
python10
json-schema10
pydantic-v210
validation10
pythonic10
llm10
prompt-engineering10
openai10
parsing10
logging10
trace10
developer-tools10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Mirascope/lilypad
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
An open-source prompt engineering framework.
Contributions:32 releases, 247 reviews, 218 PRs in 5 months
anthropiclarge-language-modelsllmllmsopenai
Mirascope/mirascope
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
LLM abstractions that aren't obstructions
Contributions:134 releases, 998 reviews, 774 PRs in 1 year 3 months
artificial-intelligencedeveloper-toolsfunction-callingllmllm-agent
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