Summary
Emerson Hsieh is a serial software founder and engineer turning cutting-edge tech into industrial scale impact. He is currently co-founder at Primodium in Sunnyvale, applying advanced automation and machine learning to transform rail, aviation, and steel. Previously, he co-founded Palifer, delivering predictive maintenance models (patent US11256757) for heavy industry, and Critterz, a crypto/NFT venture with significant trading volume and a scaled engineering team that exited. Earlier still, he founded Geomaze, a mobile app studio with top-10 apps across 130+ countries, and conducted ML research for Taiwan’s MOHW and immersive projects at UC Berkeley. He is a Berkeley EECS alumnus and YC S19 alum (Palifer + Waves), with roughly nine years of experience spanning startups, academia, and government-facing ML. He is based in Sunnyvale, California, and is known for bridging research, product, and scalable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. (expected), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), B.S. (expected), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at University of California, Berkeley
Palifer + Waves (S19), Palifer + Waves (S19) at Y Combinator
Spanish, French, English, Chinese