Michael Zellinger

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States1 yr 5 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

PhD from Caltech with expertise in AI systems.
Led development of AI-native software for diverse industries.
Pioneered tools that significantly enhanced analyst productivity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Healthcare AI specialist with strong software development capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningSoftware DevelopmentApplication Programming Interfaces (api)Data VisualizationReact.js

Other Skills

PythonDeep LearningSQLOpenAIFastAPIPyTorchAmazon Web Services (AWS)DockerKubernetesMongoDBC++TypeScriptFinancial ModelingTeamworkR (Programming Language)

About

Artificial Advantage builds reliable AI systems inside companies. We are a small firm of top AI engineers educated at the best schools and trained at the best companies. Based in San Francisco, we are the talent that big tech companies love to keep to themselves. Ready to build? Drop us a line at hello@artificialadvantage.com.

Experience

1 yr 5 mos

Total Experience

9 mos

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

Artificial advantage

AI Deployment Engineer & CEO

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Artificial Advantage builds AI-native software and machine learning workflows for clients in finance, real estate, advertising, and materials science.

Machine LearningData VisualizationPythonDeep LearningSoftware Development

Oaktree capital management, l.p.

Analyst

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 · 2 mos · New York, United States · On-site

Architected Python wrapper for FRED API, making it 2x faster to build a macro model
Pioneered Python software allowing high-yield analysts to construct Excel spreadsheets 20x faster
Built semantic search engine for alternative data sets using OpenAI embeddings
Implemented Python tools for querying internal SQL database of investment holdings
Supervised junior intern on macro modeling and interfaced with third-party data vendors

Machine LearningApplication Programming Interfaces (API)PythonSQL

Novartis

Biostatistician

Jun 2022 – Sep 2022 · 3 mos · Basel, Switzerland · On-site

Supported Novartis' top-selling drug ($4B+) with machine learning and data visualization
Achieved statistical significance in deploying cutting-edge causal inference to clinical data
Developed new data-cleaning algorithm to recognize patient symptoms 26% more accurately

Data VisualizationMachine Learning

Eth zürich

Applied ML Researcher

Nov 2021 – Sep 2022 · 10 mos · Zurich, Switzerland · On-site

Collaborated with leading intensive care physicians on medical data science project
Managed team of 7 to develop two web applications using React.ts and FastAPI
Designed effective teamwork methodology making our workflow 2x more efficient
Made key contributions to UX design and backend machine learning algorithms

Data VisualizationReact.jsMachine Learning