About
Hayden Housen has interned as a software engineer at Vocode (YC W23) and on the machine learning team at Ada. He is currently developing a platform for sharing AI-generated music.
Founder at SonautoYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Hayden went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner β the partner who ran Sonauto's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Hayden can intro founders to Sonauto's investors below.
Sonauto's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Sonauto
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Ryan TremblayFounder
Experience
- Treblo (YC W24)Co-Foundercurrent2024 β presentSan Francisco, CA
- VocodeMachine Learning and Software Engineering Intern2023San Francisco, California, United States
- AdaMachine Learning Intern2022
- Cornell UniversityUndergraduate Student Researcher2021 β 2022Ithaca, New York, United States
- AdaMachine Learning Intern2021
Skills & more
Large Language Models (LLM)Computer VisionMachine LearningWeb DevelopmentDeep LearningNatural Language Processing (NLP)CybersecurityArtificial Intelligence (AI)AdaFull-Stack DevelopmentOpenAI ProductsJava
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JavaScriptMongoDBBERTPython (Programming Language)PyTorchpythonFlaskPandas (Software)From Hayden's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Hayden Housen?
- Hayden Housen has interned as a software engineer at Vocode (YC W23) and on the machine learning team at Ada. He is currently developing a platform for sharing AI-generated music.
- Where does Hayden Housen work?
- Hayden Housen is Founder of Sonauto.
- What companies did Hayden Housen found?
- Hayden Housen founded Sonauto.
- Where did Hayden Housen go to school?
- Hayden Housen studied at Cornell University (Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science).
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Shared employers
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