Ian Blumenfeld
Founder of Liferaft
Ian Blumenfeld
Founder of Liferaft
Oakland, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, CEO
2020 - Current
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.
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!
Co-Founder, Data Scientist and CEO
2013 - 2014
My first startup. It failed.
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.
Continuation Engineer
2002 - 2003
A internship stint in hardware (graphics chips to be exact). It was fun.