Erik Frey Co-Founder at Forward, Inc. Palo Alto, California, United States 435 connections Contact info Forward, Inc. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Activity 455 followers Posts Erik created, shared, or commented on in the last 90 days are displayed here. See all activity See all activity Experience Forward, Inc. Co-Founder Company NameForward, Inc. Dates Employed2016 – Present Employment Duration5 yrs LocationSan Francisco Bay Area We're fixing healthcare by rebuilding the whole stack. If you're a hardware or software engineer, and you want to work on something that matters, let's grab coffee. http://goforward.com/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/01/17/forward-puts-apple-store-shine-doctors-office/96405836/ https://medium.com/goforward/health-moves-forward-939f73334bf … see more Google Company NameGoogle Total Duration2 yrs 9 mos TitleSpecial Projects Dates EmployedMay 2014 – Jan 2016 Employment Duration1 yr 9 mos Using Google's resources and capital to build the real world we want to live in. First launch: Sidewalk Labs, http://www.sidewalkinc.com TitleSenior Software Engineer Dates EmployedMay 2013 – May 2014 Employment Duration1 yr 1 mo LocationMountain View We taught critical thinking to computers. Deep learning for knowledge representation and inference. Natural language processing. Machine intelligence. Wavii's technology stack now delivers better Google search results through its learned knowledge representations of our world. … see more Wavii, Inc. Head of Data Science Company NameWavii, Inc. Dates EmployedNov 2009 – Apr 2013 Employment Duration3 yrs 6 mos LocationSeattle We taught reading comprehension to computers. Acquired by Google. Last.fm Research Engineer Company NameLast.fm Dates Employed2007 – 2009 Employment Duration2 yrs LocationLondon, United Kingdom Sole architect of a new kind of distributed time series database that powers all of last.fm's charts and play count data. It replaced a SQL cluster that was buckling under explosive user growth. Included a custom VM, query DSL, poor man's paxos, performance-optimized log structured storage layer - doing NoSQL before it was cool. At peak handled ~10k queries/updates per second. Oversaw last.fm's effort to fix every song, album, and artist title on the planet. Disambiguated billions of instances of music metadata across hundreds of millions of music libraries: http://blog.last.fm/2008/03/25/fingerprinting-and-metadata-progress-report Developed a scalable clustering process over a sparse feature space that munges string distance, collaborative filtering signals, unicode hacks, but most importantly audio features: http://blog.last.fm/2007/09/21/edge-cases Built last.fm’s audio fingerprinting indexing architecture. Developed a novel noise-resistant descriptor based on computer vision techniques - now an industry standard approach. Wrote some stupid bash tricks: http://blog.last.fm/2009/04/06/mapreduce-bash-script Last.fm ultimately sold to CBS for $280M. see less Soundflavor Lead Software Developer Company NameSoundflavor Dates Employed2006 – 2007 Employment Duration1 yr Bolotovo Farm Lead Miller Company NameBolotovo Farm Dates Employed2005 Employment Durationless than a year Location5km outside of Tula, Russia Primary operator of a gas-powered threshing mill. Other responsibilities included daily herding of ~25 milk cows, feeding and caring for pigs, wheelbarrow transport of manure, and warehousing/sorting potatoes for sale. Show fewer experiences Education New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Degree NameBS (with Honors)Field Of StudyComputer Science, minor Math & Electrical Engineering Dates attended or expected graduation1997 – 2001