Joseph Nelson
Co-founder, CEO at Roboflow
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Nelson is the co-founder and CEO of Roboflow, building an open-source-first computer vision platform used by 250,000+ developers and more than half the Fortune 100 to deploy models across manufacturing, healthcare, automation, and aerial analytics. Over nine years he’s scaled Roboflow from YC-backed startup to a company with $22M+ in funding while cultivating an ecosystem of repos—notebooks, inference, and supervision—that help serve 50k+ open-source vision models and dozens of practical Colab guides. He blends CEO-level product and fundraising leadership with hands-on engineering (his GitHub quip “merges his own PRs” is telling), remaining an active contributor to the tools his company ships. His background includes founding and exiting a civic-tech startup, teaching data science at General Assembly, and an unusual stint leading logic and debate workshops at France’s École de guerre, reflecting both a pedagogical bent and appetite for rigorous argument. Based in San Francisco, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with practical ML expertise to make visual data broadly programmable.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political Science
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (151)
nteract10
image-processing10
notebooks10
deep-learning10
coco10
instance-segmentation10
tflite10
yolov710
zero-shot-classification10
yolov510
convolutional-neural-networks10
video-processing10
onnx10
youtube10
yolov810
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
josephofiowa/ds-blogging
Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
josephofiowa/zenzic
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:89 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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