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Ian Blumenfeld

CEO @ Liferaft (We are hiring!!!)

Oakland, California

Education

Work Experience

2020

  • Co-Founder, CEO

    2020

    Building a functional and reliable safety net. Ping me if you want to know more! (We are hiring!)

  • Co-Host

    2018

    Data Science adjacent podcast I co-host with my friend Otis. Find us at https://www.ofdifferences.com/ and @ofdifferences on Twitter.

2014 - 2020

  • Chief Data Scientist

    2014 - 2020

    Worked with an awesome team in healthcare. Can't speak highly enough of this experience. Rooting for them from afar!

2013 - 2014

  • Co-Founder, Data Scientist and CEO

    2013 - 2014

    My first startup. It failed.

2009 - 2013

  • Lead Data Scientist

    2011 - 2013

    More Archimedes. We were doing some pretty cool stuff, the Xerox PARC for healthcare data science. I ran the team building and extending the models for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes.

  • Data Scientist

    2009 - 2011

    Started at Archimedes, working on healthcare data.

  • Graduate Student Researcher

    2004 - 2009

    My doctoral work. I worked on particle acceleration in plasmas, which is even cooler than it sounds. My contribution was small, but I'm still proud of it.

2002 - 2003

  • Continuation Engineer

    2002 - 2003

    A internship stint in hardware (graphics chips to be exact). It was fun.

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