George London

George London has a long and varied work experience. George began their career in 2008 as an Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates, where they conducted data analysis and large-scale financial modeling to build out a portion of the trading algorithm that controls Bridgewater's $100bln+ alpha portfolio. George also conducted broad macroeconomic research and wrote newsletters about topics such as the Australian economy and U.S.

In 2011, George founded LinerNotes, a website and iPhone app that makes it fast, easy, intuitive, and fun to learn about music and get great new recommendations. George built the company from idea all the way through to release, developing the website in Django, developing the mobile app in Swift, and building a high-throughput data ETL pipeline using technologies like Cascading and Hadoop.

In 2014, George founded Sonica, an iPhone app that recommended electronic music that's perfectly tuned for what you're doing and feeling right now. George designed and developed a novel music recommendation algorithm that actually works.

In 2015, they began working as a freelance programmer, building a Django backend and Swift client for a medical records management app, building the front and back end for a website to help dairy farmers manage their business and finances, and expanding and enhancing the saleor-based web store for a synthetic RNA startup.

Finally, in 2016, George joined Upwave as Vice President of Engineering, and later became Director of Engineering. In this role, they owned management for Upwave’s full, 18-engineer distributed engineering team, and was accountable for all hiring, team productivity, morale. George also designed, executed, and monitored software development life cycle, developer & manager training, and recruiting process. As Lead Data Engineer, they officially managed a team of 8 direct reports, recruited, interviewed, and hired the entire team, and on-boarded and trained new hires. As Software Engineer, they designed and developed a microservice using pandas and the Falcon framework to automatically aggregate and statistically analyze survey results, and implemented methodology for analyzing contingency tables that's more rigorous than what's available in most standard statistical packages.

George London completed their high school education at The Branson School from 2000 to 2004. George then went on to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Yale University, which they completed in 2008.