Harry Winner

Engineer by training. Previously at OpenAI, Google, Amazon (Alexa), and a quantitative hedge fund; before that, two graduate degrees in Cameroon and Morocco, two papers, two patents, and a Heidelberg Fellowship. Now working independently on a handful of small things in applied AI, with a growing side interest in public policy and economics. Bilingual French/English; raised in Yaoundé, currently between Houston and Berlin.

Current projects

• 01
  chaperone.love live

  AI matchmaking — chat- and voice-bots play counselor and mediator between would-be partners.
• 02
  lingo.cm beta

  Translation tooling for indigenous and under-resourced languages.
• 03
  flagshipserver.com open source

  Local-first AI inference for home hardware — easier to install and audit than the alternatives.
• 04
  American Dividend Fund policy

  A founder's project on broad-based ownership and the redistribution of returns in the age of automation.

Experience

• 2023–
  Co-founder & AI engineer, Flagship Tech & policy consultancy. NLP pipelines for low-resource languages; LLM services for ~50 EMEA clients; AI policy advisory to three governments.
• 2022–23
  Senior engineer, Google Full-stack feature ownership; led a proto→relational migration on a 200 rps path to GCP. Extended NLP coverage into low-resource languages.
• 2020–21
  AI scholar, OpenAI Trained and deployed models on physical and cloud GPU clusters. Wrote on AI safety, bias, and policy.
• 2018–20
  Senior engineer, Amazon (Alexa) Core contributor to NLP features (e.g. “Alexa, turn on subtitles”) with Hulu and Netflix as partners. Completed Amazon’s ML University.
• 2017–18
  Data/ML engineer, Pit AI Quantitative hedge fund. Real-time processing of 3B+ signals/day; secure data architecture and back-testing for high-frequency strategies.
• 2016–17
  Project lead, KIAMA / ekiosque.cm Built and launched a digital newsstand for Cameroon; now generates 40%+ of company profits.
• 2013–16
  Tech lead, GiftedMom Maternal-health platform reaching thousands of mothers and expecting women in Cameroon. Managed a $2M+ program budget.

→ Full resume (PDF)

Writing

At work on a book — a modest proposal on the future of work in the age of AI. Ask me about it.

Research

Older work — two papers, two patents — came out of graduate research on decentralized election systems. A more recent preprint is here.

Etc.

I make music when I'm not coding; latest video is here. Volunteer sheriff deputy in Harris County. I read too much, sleep too little.