Jorge Torres

Jorge Torres has an extensive work experience spanning from 2008 to the present. In 2008, they co-founded DataCRM Soluciones and was a board member. Jorge also joined the tech team at CouchSurfing International as the second full-time developer and helped the site scale from thousands of users to 4 million users. In 2014, they became a Senior Software Engineer at Skillshare.com, where they were responsible for the migration of the video infrastructure to a top CDN and making the site available to anyone on a freemium basis. In 2015, they co-founded Real Life Analytics and served as CTO, managing the engineering team and building a computer vision system for out of home advertising. In 2016, they became Lead Engineer at CareJourney and in 2018 they became Co-Founder & CEO of MindsDB.

Jorge Torres completed a Visiting Research Scholar program at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018-2019, focusing on Machine Learning Automation and Explainability. Jorge is an alumni of Y Combinator's W20 program for MindsDB. From 2011-2012, they obtained a Masters in Information Systems from The Australian National University, with a focus on Machine Learning. Jorge also participated in Stanford University's Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative - Scaling Program, which focused on Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies.