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Quinn Johnson

InvestorFounder

Engineer at Smrti Lab · Founder at Aquarium Learning

Oakland, California, United States

FoundedAquarium Learning · YC

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401 people in our graph share verified history with Quinn — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Aydin SenkutunlockedQuinn: together at Notion (2024–2026)
×4Quinn: together at Notion
×6Quinn: together at University of California, Berkeley
Quinn: together at Cruise

About

Quinn Johnson is an engineer and manager who has held leadership roles in data engineering and machine learning at Ouster, Cruise Automation, and Graphistry, where he was an early engineering hire. He co-founded Aquarium Learning, which develops deep learning infrastructure.

Founder at Aquarium LearningYC S20

Intro paths

YC

Quinn went through Y Combinator (Summer 2020) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Aquarium Learning's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Quinn can intro founders to Aquarium Learning's investors below.

Aquarium Learning's investors · 2

Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2021Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2020

Co-founders at Aquarium Learning

PGPeter Gao
Peter GaoFounder

Experience

  1. NotionEngineercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Aquarium LearningCo-Founder2020 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  3. OusterEngineering Manager2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  4. Cruise AutomationEngineering Manager2017 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  5. Cruise AutomationSenior Software Engineer2016 — 2017San Francisco, CA
  6. GraphistrySoftware Engineer2015 — 2016Oakland, CA
  7. Palantir TechnologiesInternal Tools Engineer Intern2014Palo Alto, CA
  8. UC BerkeleyAssistant III2014Berkeley, CA
  9. Aerospike, Inc.Software Engineer Intern2013Mountain View, CA

Skills & more

Software Engineering8CUDA2JavaScript3Node.js1Distributed Systems1Programming4OpenCL1D3.js1OpenMPWeb Development1GPGPU1WebGL1
+11 morePythonC++Data VisualizationTestingJenkinsJavaLinuxGitCCascading Style Sheets (CSS)HTML5

From Quinn's professional profile.

Colleagues at Smrti Lab

Chinmay Katdare
Partner at Epiq Capital Investment Advisory LLP
David Rosenberg
Investor at Notion Capital
Erica Jung
Senior Analyst, Finance and Portfolio Analytics at Comcast Ventures
Jonathan Cheung
Investor at Lead Edge Capital

Frequently asked questions

Who is Quinn Johnson?
Quinn Johnson is an engineer and manager who has held leadership roles in data engineering and machine learning at Ouster, Cruise Automation, and Graphistry, where he was an early engineering hire. He co-founded Aquarium Learning, which develops deep learning infrastructure.
Where does Quinn Johnson work?
Quinn Johnson is Founder of Aquarium Learning and Engineer at Smrti Lab.
What companies did Quinn Johnson found?
Quinn Johnson founded Aquarium Learning.
Where did Quinn Johnson go to school?
Quinn Johnson studied at University of California, Berkeley (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).

Founder mafias

Aerospike mafia2

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John DillonCEOFounded Hyperion Solutions +1

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Shared employers

Also worked at Graphistry1

Leo MeyerovichFounder at Graphistry