Andrew Hendel

I hold BS and MS degrees from the Stanford University School of Engineering, where I was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.

I spent fourteen years in financial services: investment banking at Morgan Stanley, private equity at Oak Hill Capital, and ten years at Beach Point Capital Management as a Managing Director, where I managed over $1B in assets in distressed debt.

I then spent six years founding and building companies across fintech and social media, including Franklin AI, where I led development of the native mobile app, web app, backend services, and cloud infrastructure.

I also write mojolearn, a self-funded open-source library for reproducing machine-learning models and predictions across GPU vendors. To my knowledge, it is the first AI library to produce bitwise identical training and inference across GPU vendors. It covers over 100 algorithms and model components in 13 families. In one experiment, I trained a 162-million-parameter language model twice along different routes through NVIDIA, AMD and Apple hardware.