David Shan

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Age 1

CTO @ Clado. Excited about AI, infrastructure, deep tech.

Work

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Training state of the art small language models at Clado .
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Researched agentic engineering at MIT with Professor Manolis Kellis.
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Interned at Geotab to build telematics software.

Interests

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Favorite writings:
1. Man's Search For Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
2. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (Eric Jorgenson)
3. Zero To One (Peter Thiel)
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Favorite movies:
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Forrest Gump
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Currently learning golf, tennis, guitar, and piloting
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- Team Ontario Table Tennis
- Haliburton 26K, Toronto Waterfront Marathon, and 50K Ultramarathon
- CSIA Level 2 Ski Instructor

Misc

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Exploring browser agents and observability in the context of machine learning.
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I also do a bit of angel investing on the side:
- i. Matrix Biotech (Pre-seed)
  At-home DNA health testing
- ii. Imagine AI (Seed)
  Your AI Clone for B2B Content