Michael Farrell
Co-Founder And CTO at Transcend
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Farrell is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder/CTO of Transcend, a San Francisco-based privacy technology company, where he leads product and platform strategy to protect data in motion and at rest. He holds a BA in Computer Science and Statistics and an MS in Computer Science from Harvard, combining strong quantitative training with hands-on software engineering. With a decade of full-stack development experience, he specializes in web applications, machine learning, and data modeling, and has a track record of shipping secure, scalable systems. He has deep research roots, having built automated neural drug development techniques in the George Church lab and developed risk models for a credit hedge fund at Apollo Global Management, illustrating his ability to apply rigorous modeling to diverse domains. An accomplished educator, he served as a 5-time Harvard Teaching Fellow and taught CS and data science to a broad audience. Based in San Francisco, he bridges academia and industry to translate complex privacy, ML, and data challenges into practical, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
3.4/4, 3.4/4 at Harvard University
French, Latin
Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
ui-components10
testing10
command-line-interface10
e2e10
isolation10
jsx10
mssql-server10
browser10
react-testing-library10
dynamodb10
html10
imports10
d110
json10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
transcend-io/logger
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Transcend browser logger
Contributions:16 reviews, 3 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
browsertranscendloggerloggingbrowser-logger
transcend-io/consent-manager-ui
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Transcend's Consent UI
Contributions:118 reviews, 65 commits, 151 PRs in 1 year 2 months
consenttranscendprivacy
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