Mason Swofford
Co-Founder & CEO at Tenzo AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMason Swofford is an AI researcher-turned-founder with nine years of experience building production ML systems across self-driving, computer vision, and enterprise security before founding Tenzo AI to automate and humanize recruiting. Trained at Stanford and experienced at Waymo, NVIDIA, and Verkada, he has shipped novel perception and privacy-forward video systems and holds patents in encrypted streaming and planning algorithms. Mason has a pattern of turning research-grade models into pragmatic products—his stealth work produced top-ranked coding and legal AI agents on the ChatGPT plugin store and license-plate readers that ran on iPhones instead of costly hardware. He scaled an AI-powered staffing business, then pivoted that capability into a platform that lets recruiters source, screen, and schedule at global scale in multiple languages. Known for tackling hard perception problems and applying them to real-world workflows, he blends deep technical rigor with founder-level operational instincts.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dropped out to join startup) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dropped out to join startup) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Hamilton Southeastern High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Stanford University
Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
chatgpt10
ai10
generative-ai9
gemini9
python9
pydantic9
langchain9
llm9
openai9
anthropic9
typescript9
chatbot8
api8
audio8
audio-player8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mswoff/DANTE
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Code for "Improving Social Awareness Through DANTE: A Deep Affinity Network for Clustering Conversational Interactants".
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
clustering
mswoff/squad
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Starter code for Stanford CS224n default final project on SQuAD 2.0
Contributions:30 pushes in 14 days
stanfordcs224nsquadstarter-code
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