About

Personal website of Ralph Gootee. I do not support social media or advertising. Available on Linked-in professionaly.

Experience

• TigerEye as co-founder and CTO. We're using AI to build an enterprise grade business simulator.
• Y-Combinator as a visting partner for YC batch W20. Helped coach over 400 companies, everything from in the weeds technical evaluation to fund raising strategy.
• Autodesk as Chief Software Architect. After integration, focused on augmented reality in construction and supported international sales.
• PlanGrid as co-founder and CTO. Built the mobile apps, lead product, and helped bring us to an aquasition by Autodesk.
• Pixar as a rendering pipeline engineer. Credited on Cars 2.
• Sony as a user experience engineer. Worked on Sony’s first Android Phone.
• The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as Mathematician and Computer Scientist. Worked on visualizations of ballistic projectiles.

Education

I hold an undergraduate degree in Theoretical Mathematics from Salisbury University and a masters in Applied Mathematics with a focus on Stochastic Processes from Johns Hopkins.