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.

Work

• 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.

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.