Mason Swofford
Co-Founder CEO at Tenzo AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMason Swofford is a San Francisco-based technology founder and AI researcher who co-founded Tenzo AI, where he leads product strategy as CEO with a mission to transform how job seekers and employers connect through AI-powered recruiting. Drawing on eight years of experience in AI and computer vision—from Stanford research on self-driving and facial recognition to engineering roles at Verkada, NVIDIA, and Waymo—he blends deep technical learning with hands-on product leadership. He previously co-founded Salv and contributed to stealth startup ventures, bringing a broad track record of turning cutting-edge research into early-stage products. He earned a BS in Computer Science (AI) and an MS in AI from Stanford, and started a PhD at UT Austin but left to pursue startup entrepreneurship. Based in San Francisco, he views AI as a catalyst for smarter employment outcomes and is focused on building scalable, user-centric hiring tools.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dropped out to work at startup), Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dropped out to work at startup), Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Hamilton Southeastern High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Stanford University
Spanish, German
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Github Skills (105)
api9
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python9
audio-player9
affinity9
dante9
airplay9
crypto8
active-learning8
chatbot8
audio8
pandas8
javascript8
efficientnet8
data-cleaning8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mswoff/squad
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Starter code for Stanford CS224n default final project on SQuAD 2.0
Contributions:30 pushes in 14 days
stanfordcs224nsquadstarter-code
mswoff/Image-Completion-on-CIFAR-10
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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