Britton Winterrose

Head of Design

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led technical business development for Microsoft for Startups.
Advised over 500 YC and AI startups.
Active angel investor in 40+ startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with a strong focus on startup growth and technical advisory.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)

Other Skills

PythonMachine LearningData ScienceEntrepreneurshipData MiningData VisualizationProduct ManagementDesign of ExperimentsResearchSalesMarketingBusiness StrategyProject ManagementBusiness DevelopmentStrategic Consulting

About

Britton Winterrose leads Technical Business Development for Microsoft for Startups on the Strategic Partnerships team. A former founder and AI expert, Britton has worked with 500+ YC and AI startups as a technical advisor across the past seven years. He designs programs to win formidable founders early, architects partnerships with scaling startups like Replit, and leads strategy that helps ambitious founders choose and grow on Azure. Britton is an active angel investor in 40+ startups and can be found on X.com @bwinterrose 2x founder turned AI founder enabler. Intensely curious. Responsible for the distribution and effective use of > $100 million in cloud computing credits to startups. Here to connect with and help founders, especially those building frontier models or going through YC. Make friends, work hard, and deliver results. Want to send me a message? Follow me on Twitter and send a DM.

Experience

13 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft for startups

3 roles

Head of AI and Technical BD - Strategic Partnerships

Promoted

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

We help founders.
I lead technical business development for strategic partnerships.
Our goal is to discover and empower the world's top startups as early as possible.
For some this is at incorporation, for others it's when they need Microsoft's Enterprise strength.
Happy to connect with founders and investors.

Head of AI Depth Team and Principal AI Advisor

Dec 2023 – Nov 2024 · 11 mos

Led the AI Depth Team to support startups in the artificial intelligence domain.
Served as a Principal AI Advisor, connecting founders with essential resources for AI development.
Collaborated with internal and external partners to discover innovative startups and deliver tailored solutions.

Principal AI Advocate - Startups

Sep 2023 – Dec 2023 · 3 mos

Accelerated founders' access to credits, technical advice, and support on Azure
Launched YC Partnership providing $350k in credits for YC founders
Launched Microsoft for Startups GPU Cluster offering

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Senior Startup Solutions Architect (AI/ML) - Y Combinator

Dec 2022 – Sep 2023 · 9 mos

Personally helped another 100+ YC companies build on AWS and helped advise internal teams on building the AI services founders needed.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Startup Solutions Architect (AI/ML) - Y Combinator

Oct 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Personally helped 300+ YC companies and a handful of unicorns, including Anthropic and Worldcoin, choose and build on AWS.

Lambda school

Data Science Fellow

Nov 2018 – Oct 2019 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

2500+ hours learning Python, Keras, TensorFlow, SQL, Scala, Spark in an INTENSE bootcamp.
A nine-month long (full-time, M-F) mastery-based intensive full-stack data science program followed by a month of leetcode and a month of technical interviews.
Program encompassed software engineering, data engineering, statistics, linear algebra, predictive modeling, machine learning, deep learning, and computer science.
Demonstrated mastery in the following subject areas:
Python (pandas, numpy, seaborn, scikit-learn, matplotlib, dask).
Predictive analytics & exploratory data analysis (EDA).
Feature engineering, clustering, dimensionality reduction.
Packages, containers (docker), and unit testing.
SQL (PostgreSQL), AWS, Apache Spark, Flask, ETL pipelines.
Natural Language Processing (NLP), Recommendation Systems.
Tree ensembles, neural networks, gradient boosting, ensemble methods.
Agile software development and Git workflow.
Notable Accomplishments:
1st Place + $18,000 in the Pioneer App + Lambda School Challenge – May 2019
Kaggle Days SF 2019 Hackathon – 11th Place vs multiple Kaggle Masters & Grandmasters
Larkist - Built an eight-person hybrid team and made full-stack app with an enterprise scalable machine learning backend in five weeks.

Darksaber

Founder

Dec 2017 – Nov 2018 · 11 mos · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Founded a mid-scale crypto mining operation, raised $115,000 in funding and built a company.
Managed all operations & growth. Sold in a private acquisition in October 2018.

Botpot

CEO / Founder

Mar 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Invented a first-of-its-kind countertop robotic cooking appliance for the home. Utility patent pending: WO/2018/136777
Programmed embedded systems controllers (Python & OOP) and a web application (JavaScript) to control the device.
Raised money from investors & competitions, led the prototype R&D, recruited a CTO, and grew the team to 4 people.

Beauty industry group

2 roles

App Developer / IT Manager

Promoted

Aug 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Salt Lake City

Programmed five MEAN + JS apps that enabled Beauty Depot to break $1M per month in sales in April 2016.
Built out AWS EC2, local server and network infrastructure to allow growth from 30 employees to 150+.

Product Manager

Jan 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Salt Lake City

Analyzed, financial modeled & pitched new 9 new business ideas. Resulted in one new brand and one acquisition.
Generated ongoing cost-savings of more than $100,000 per year via identified & executed product and process improvement projects.
Rescued a failing sub-company. Built forecasting model, bought 90% more inventory, and boosted sales by +110%.

Samson tug & barge

Business Analyst / Business Analysis Intern

Jun 2013 – Jan 2014 · 7 mos · Sitka, Alaska

Wrote SQL analyses daily, developed strategic cost savings plans & policy proposals, and presented to the VP.
Programmed a financial model in Excel of existing business and a new service route. Included demand forecasting, equipment financing, and operations expenses. Resulted in Samson doubled their operating ports from 7 to 14.