Yoav Zimmerman
CEO Co-Founder at Third Chair (YC X25)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolYoav Zimmerman is a founder and CEO with 11 years of engineering and product experience building machine learning-driven startups that scale. He co-founded Trendpop (YC W21), grew it from $0 to $1M+ ARR in 16 months, achieved profitability within a year, and exited to Collab after earning Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition. Prior to Trendpop he was an early hire at Determined AI, leading cross-functional engineering, product, and sales efforts for distributed ML tooling and closing enterprise deals, and earlier contributed to web-scale information extraction at Google. Now leading Third Chair, he combines deep technical fluency in ML systems with hands-on startup growth instincts to turn data into revenue-generating products. A UCLA magna cum laude CS graduate based in San Francisco, he has a track record of shipping measurable model and product improvements in both research and commercial settings.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Hebrew, Chinese, python
Stackoverflow
598reputation
35kreached
22answers
2questions
Github Skills (116)
python10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
distributed-training10
twitter10
tensorflowjs10
ml10
audio10
neural-network10
trending10
hyperparameter-tuning10
text-generation10
data-science10
tensorflow10
question-answering10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yoavz/beatbox
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Collaborative drum machine with Meteor
Contributions:58 commits, 10 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
meteor
yoavz/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:18 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.