Tom Alcorn

no silver bullet

Founder

2025Staff Software Engineer· Databricks

Founder · since 2018

Company

Databricks

Role

Staff Software Engineer

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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We turn machine learning models into custom hardware.

Experience

Career

Databricks
Engineering Manager · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
Databricks
Staff Software Engineer · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025
2025
Databricks
Senior Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2022 – 2025
2022
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Founder
Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2022
2018
Bradfield School of Computer Science
Instructor · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017 – 2022
2017
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Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2019
2018
Flux.io
Software Engineer · San Francisco · 2015 – 2017
2015
AdHarmonics
Data Scientist · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · 2014 – 2015
2014
Stanford University
Research Assistant · Palo Alto, California · 2013
2013
University of Cambridge
Visiting Scholar · Cambridge, United Kingdom · 2013
2013
MIT
Undergraduate Researcher · Cambridge, Massachusetts · 2011 – 2012
2011
MIT
Teaching Assistant · Cambridge, Massachusetts · 2011
2011

Machine learning enthusiast, self-taught hardware hacker