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Jackson Stokes

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Co-Founder at TrainLoop
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Jackson Stokes is the Co-Founder of TrainLoop, a YC W25 startup that helps developers enhance AI model performance using reinforcement learning. His expertise is rooted in his previous role at Google, where he worked on kernel-level optimizations for Gemini. He holds an M. S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Based on his social media activity, Jackson appears to be highly engaged in the startup and Y Combinator community. He shows a sense of humor, referring to himself as the "personality hire" at his own company while promoting founder events.

Unique fact: Jackson has stated that due to AI, the speed of coding has accelerated exponentially, shifting his own role from an engineer to a "product person. "

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Experience
4 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Jackson shows up

Example Seeker
Value Driven
Assertive

They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.

Priorities

Topics Jackson cares about

Reinforcement Learning
His startup, TrainLoop, is dedicated to making reinforcement learning techniques accessible to all developers to improve large language models.
AI-driven Development
He is a proponent of "vibe coding, " using AI to write code, and has commented on how it changes the need for hiring traditional engineering and design roles.
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Career

Work history

Co-Founder
TrainLoop
Software Engineer
Google
1-2020 - 9-2022
Research Assistant (Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing)
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
9-2018 - 9-2022
Teaching Assistant (Artificial Intelligence, Probability)
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Research Intern
Google
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
Education details unavailable
Y Combinator
2017 - 2022
M.S. Computer Science
University of Washington
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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