about.md
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Meet the Team
Jimmy Koppel
Co-Founder
Jimmy Koppel is a computer scientist and serial entrepreneur whose research has been featured in the New York Times. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon at age 20 with two degrees, won the Thiel Fellowship, and later earned a Ph. D. in programming languages from MIT. Through his company Mirdin, he has trained over 400 software engineers at the advanced level, and his blog on software design has over 1 million views. He is currently a founder of UpToSpeed, which reduces the time needed for engineers to become fully productive on complex codebases.
Nils Eriksson
Co-Founder
Nils went from junior to principal engineer in 3 years. He became tech lead for the entire web platform of Discovery Networksā€™ core team, and built products such as Discovery+, now used by millions. In 2020, Nils heard Jimmy on a podcast and became a student in his course. He stood out so much that Jimmy handpicked him to be his business partner.