Andre von Houck
FounderFounder at Pushbullet
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedPushbullet · YC
About
Andre von Houck is an AI Researcher at Softmax, where he works on AI alignment through multi-agent reinforcement learning. He began college at age 14 and completed his bachelor's degree at 20. His technical interests include designing programming languages, building toy operating systems, and working with Python and LISP-like languages, and he contributes to open source projects.
Founder at PushbulletYC W14
Intro paths
YC
Andre went through Y Combinator (Winter 2014) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Co-founders at Pushbullet
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Ryan OldenburgFounder/CEO
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Christopher HesseFounder
Experience
- SoftmaxAI Researchercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Reddit, Inc.Staff Software Engineer2017 — 2024Seattle, Washington, United States
- GoogleSenior Software Engineer2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- PushbulletCo-Founder (YC W14)2013 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- Hipmunk.comReal Programmer2010 — 2013
- AudienceScienceSoftware Developer2009 — 2010
- Revenue ScienceSoftware Developer2008 — 2009
- Mobile PenguinsWeb Developer2006 — 2008
Skills & more
Python14JavaScript12Java10Linux10MySQL5Programming4Software Development4Web Applications3PHP3Agile Methodologies4SQL2CSS3
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HTMLE-commerceHadoopC#jQueryC++CoffeeScriptLanguages Russian
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Andre von Houck?
- Andre von Houck is an AI Researcher at Softmax, where he works on AI alignment through multi-agent reinforcement learning. He began college at age 14 and completed his bachelor's degree at 20. His technical interests include designing programming languages, building toy operating systems, and working with Python and LISP-like languages, and he contributes to open source projects.
- Where does Andre von Houck work?
- Andre von Houck is Founder of Pushbullet.
- What companies did Andre von Houck found?
- Andre von Houck founded Pushbullet.
- Where did Andre von Houck go to school?
- Andre von Houck studied at Y Combinator (W14, Startups); University of Washington (BS of CS, Computing and Software Systems); Peninsula College (Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.)).
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