Summary
Nelson Auner is a Data & AI leader based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building ML and data systems for financial services and e-commerce. He founded Coalition’s data science function as the 12th employee, worked as a data scientist at Affirm, and served as co-founder and CTO of Housitive. As an independent consultant he designed and shipped production LLM/RAG solutions—compliance systems, document parsing with human-in-the-loop, automated customer support used on thousands of conversations, and AML/risk tooling. Now leading Data & AI at Augment, he blends hands-on engineering, product instincts, and team-building to operationalize GenAI in regulated settings. He holds a BA and master’s from The University of Chicago and brings early economic research experience at central banks and ministries to his data-driven approach. An exchange student at Sunrin Internet High School, he also brings a global perspective to technical problem solving.
12 years of coding experience