Paul Mestemaker

Hi internet stranger!

My name is Paul. This is my personal site. I blog here about life lessons, hobbies, and fun projects.
Yep! That's me 👇🏼 I'm currently very focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)... and I have built all sorts of dumb side projects to prove it! If you're at all interested in this space, please reach out.
Paul Mestemaker outside the Louvre

Quick rundown of who I am

I'm the founder and CTO of Eluve. We're building the AI operating system for healthcare: automating the boring stuff to reduce errors and burnout, and empowering clinical and business leaders to make better decisions faster. Founder/CTO is the title, but in practice I'm hands-on across engineering, product, design, and business.

Now

  • Building Eluve and shipping AI systems into real healthcare workflows.
  • Still dabbling in side projects under CleverPoint LLC, my long-running umbrella for special projects (Weddingle, ML Advent Calendars, Event Discovery, and many more).
  • Trying to redevelop the blogging habit. I have blogged. Past tense for now.

Before this

I cofounded Circadian Risk and served as its CTO. We made physical security assessment software. Before that I was Head of Product at Close, cofounder of Mythly Studios, and spent ~7 years at Microsoft, where I was a founding member of the System Center Advisor team. Looks like one of the patents I applied for was granted.

Born and raised in the midwest. I started my first business when I was 15 as a full-stack engineer building web applications for Fortune 500 companies.

Things I love dabbling in

  • AI/ML (Python/PyTorch, LLM pipelines, diffusion models, reinforcement learning, vector databases)
  • Web apps (TypeScript/React/Postgres)
  • Analytics (Python/Pandas, conversion rate optimization, funnel and cohort analysis with tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, and custom-built solutions made by me)

Odds and ends

I used to co-host a weekly tech news podcast with over 6 million views.

In a former life, I was a decent standup comic. Now I mainly make meetings a bit less dry.

I occasionally speak at conferences and guest-lecture at universities. Some of my favorite gigs have been University of Michigan, MIT's Sloan School of Business, and UIUC. If you have something interesting, reach out.

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