Tom Quisel
Founder & CEO at Musubi
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Quisel is a founder and CEO with 14 years of hands-on engineering and data science leadership, currently building Musubi to protect 35M+ users with AI-first Trust & Safety defenses. He previously scaled product and tech teams as CTO at OkCupid and Grindr and led engineering at Stellar, blending deep machine learning, large-scale systems, and applied statistics to operational problems. Tom’s background spans core infrastructure, recommender systems, medical timeseries, and big-data platforms, enabling him to automate tasks that were previously deemed infeasible. Based in Santa Barbara, he combines research-level rigor from early academic work at CMU and EPFL with a track record of shipping revenue-driving and safety-critical systems. Notably, he’s driving the industry transition to agentic and generative-AI defenses that handle the lion’s share of moderation work.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at EPFLBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French
Github Skills (4)
feedparser8
nodejs2
javascript1
ghostscript1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
musubu/node-opds-parser
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
OPDS Catalog Feed Parser for node
Contributions:23 commits in 16 days
feedparser
musubu/rails-websocket-sample
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 1 month
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