Declan Jones
Co-Founder CIO at Prolific Machines Inc.
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolDeclan Jones is Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer of Prolific Machines, a Bay Area photomolecular biology company that uses light to precisely control cellular behavior—a vision inspired by optogenetics in 2020. He leads the data, AI, and platform strategy, blending full-stack data engineering with ML to unlock efficiency, quality, and reproducibility across biotechnologies. Prior to Prolific, he built RentalBrain at Zillow Group, developing rental fraud prediction models and contributing to the data platform across multiple brands. A UC Berkeley alumnus with a BA in History and Computer Science (3.7 GPA), he studied computer graphics and even built a ray-tracer from scratch, grounding his work in strong image processing roots. Based in Oakland, Declan combines entrepreneurial drive with technical depth to ship scalable ML-powered solutions and advance next-generation biotechnologies.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, History and Computer Science, 3.7 GPA, Bachelor's degree, History and Computer Science, 3.7 GPA at University of California, BerkeleySt James Independent School for Boys
Latin, Greek, akkadian, Italian, French, SanskritGithub contributions (3)
kyleboss/RayTracer
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 3 pushes in 18 days
DeclanJones/MarkovTwitterClient
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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