I'm currently interested in aerospace, manufacturing, AI-native services, US-China relations, and semiconductors. If you're an earnest technologist, we'd probably get along - reach out on seanwaplington at gmail.

Things I've worked on:

  • Amca (Hire #6)
    Aerospace manufacturing M&A. Forward deployed engineer; worked closely with GMs on margin expansion initiatives and engineers on R&D tooling.
  • Convergence (Hire #2)
    AI research lab, acquired by Salesforce for $160M. I built the first version of Proxy (an early computer use agent).
  • AI software for aerospace manufacturers.
  • 11x (Hire #1)
    Led development of Alice, one of the first AI software products ever built (GPT-3 early access). We had to solve lots of fun novel engineering challenges, like function calling, web search, evals, etc - before they existed as products. Raised $75M from Benchmark and a16z. In a screenshot!
  • Co-founded e/acc, hosted hackathons like these:
    e/acc evente/acc event