Sam Cassatt
Founder of Aligned Capital
Sam Cassatt
Founder of Aligned Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2019 - Current
Chief Strategy Officer
2015 - 2019
Chief Technology Officer
2014 - 2015
Co-Founder, Principal Design Engineer
2011 - 2013
Work with government and industry clients and in-house team to architect prototype-level software and hardware systems meeting technical and financial constraints. Act as technical lead in design and production processes. Designed and managed a team to implement all backend code for a mobile app serving 100K users. Worked with interdisciplinary team to design and engineer a next-generation computer vision technology, providing guidance to engineering team regarding design goals.
Associate Engineer
2008 - 2011
Communicate with clients and engineering team to generate and revise design requirements for software and hardware systems. Contribute Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Human-Computer Interaction knowledge to multi-disciplinary engineering teams. Design and implement custom algorithms and algorithms drawn from academic and industry research in software.
Research Assistant
2008 - 2008
Created software necessary to translate between linear-algebra based models of working memory and neural network simulator software, with the end goal of modeling serial order representation in working memory. Created software to evaluate the performance of the model based on established neuropsychological tests used to assess spelling in dysgraphic patients. Participated in reading groups, evaluating current research in visuospatial and computational cognitive neuropsychology. Evaluated presentations of ongoing research in the lab, offering constructive criticism.
Education
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