Jonathan Pedersen
Working on big things.
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Current Work
Waymo — Something new.
www.LockItIn.live — a LLM-powered sportsbook in your group chat. (Please excuse the rushed html)
Past Work
Skipfor Capital Partners — Founding Partner
- Investment syndicate of a diverse set of GSB students.
- Investing in a wide range of early-stage endeavours.
NFX — Venture Fellow
- Investing in the Stanford startup ecosystem.
- Sourced and pushed for Clarative, a $1M check led by James Currier.
- Other deals include BuildCheck AI, EFEX, and Lilo.
Boundless — Explored the interesting world of oil and gas with Dan Saper.
Playground Global (Deep-Tech Venture Capital) — Summer Intern
- Covered AI and Deep-Learning. Pharma too.
- Brought 15 companies into the pipeline.
- Worked closely with Strand Therapeutics on their market models and $70M fundraise.
Planted Solar — Software Lead — 1 Year
- Automated solar farm construction.
- Joined as first experienced software engineer.
- Started software roadmap and stack from scratch.
- Designed, prioritized, and built site design and optimization tooling.
Waymo — Senior Software Engineer — 4 Years
- Worked on the code that drives the car.
- Responsible for pick-ups, drop-offs, and trip optimization.
- Led onboard/offboard interface redesign.
- Created and integrated predictive parking and traffic signals.
- Designed and built novel simulation techniques.
- Many projects spanned 3+ teams (Router, Offboard, Planner, UX, Simulation).
- Ended on the deep-learned motion planning team.
- Worked on deep-learned model that predicted controls directly.
- Wrote the technical onboarding documentation for Waymo’s Planner team of 100+ engineers.
Education
- Stanford MBA '24
- Stanford Master's in Mechanical Engineering '18
- Teaching assistant for senior-level thermo and fluid dynamics.
- Stanford Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering '17