Ralph Gootee
I design & build simple, useful things
Experience
I’m the co-founder and CTO at TigerEye. We're using AI to build an enterprise grade business simulator. Previously I’ve worked at:
- 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, I ran a team focused on augmented reality in construction and supported international sales.
- PlanGrid as co-founder and CTO. I built the mobile apps, lead product, and helped bring us to an aquasition by Autodesk.
- Pixar as a rendering pipeline engineer. I’m credited on Cars 2.
- Sony as a user experience engineer. I worked on Sony’s first Android Phone.
- The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as Mathematician and Computer Scientist. I worked on visualizations of ballistic projectiles.
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.