Continua

The Team

David Petrou

Founder and CEO

David is building technology to preserve and amplify humanity's most precious resource: attention. A former Distinguished Software Engineer at Google, he helped found Google Goggles and Glass, and led large teams launching on-device machine intelligence. David cherishes time with his daughter.

Noah Lieberman

Founding ML Engineer

Noah is designing and developing our core AI applications. Previously, he worked as a Principal Engineer and Staff Machine Learning Engineer at other Bay Area tech startups, gaining a strong foundation in machine learning and systems engineering. An avid outdoor enthusiast, Noah plays soccer year-round, snowboards in winter, and backpacks in summer.

Ken Bowden

Client and Frontend Engineer

Ken is responsible for building Continua's client-side experience on mobile and web. Previously, he was a Staff Frontend Engineer at Slack. Ken brings a unique blend of creativity and technical expertise to his role- he has a degree in Music Engineering and plays the saxophone.

Jason Bacasa

Brand & Human Experience

Jason oversees branding and marketing endeavors. Previously, he worked as a creative director helping mission-driven enterprises bring their unique perspectives to the world. In his free time, he does a lot of yoga and records his nighttime dreams.

Andrew Hyatt

Software Engineer

Andrew Hyatt is working on our backend systems. He previously worked as a Principal Engineer in Google Search, with experience in Search Platforms, Local Search, Realtime Search, in many parts of the search system. He has created and maintains Emacs packages for websockets, LLMs, and more, and can cook a good Neopolitan pizza in under one minute.

Davis Yoshida

ML Engineer

Davis is working on improving our quality and reducing costs by training custom models. He has a background in NLP research, focusing on decoding algorithms for language models. He has released several open source ML libraries/tools for streamlining ML research.

Olga Dorabiala

ML Engineer

Olga is helping build Continua's cognition system. She has an extensive background in applied mathematics and unsupervised learning, particularly as it applies to anomaly detection and dimensionality reduction. In her free time, she likes to stay busy hiking, skiing, and playing in various rec sports leagues.

Joseph Higgins

System Software Engineer

Joseph is working on our backend system. Previously he worked in video streaming, working on internet traffic control for Disney+ video distribution. He brings to the team a knack for distributed systems, an appetite for AI, and a dry sense of humor.

Steve Vinter

Executive Coach

Steve helps people be their best, both individually and in teams. He has worked in the tech industry for 30 years and grew the Google site in Cambridge to over a thousand people as its first site lead. He works with executives across the range of sectors focusing on early and mid-stage companies experiencing rapid growth.

Values

Our culture defines who we are and how we achieve our mission. We move ahead together, contributing our unique strengths and passions, united by a shared vision. These values are the guiding principles that define our culture and shape the work we do every day.

Respect

We value each person’s unique perspective and talents. Trust, kindness, and understanding guide our relationships. Healthy conflict and collaboration fuel creativity, while respect and well-being lay the foundation for sustained excellence.

Velocity

We act with urgency, recognizing that opportunities are fleeting and the world is changing rapidly. Imperfect plans executed quickly are better than perfect ones that delay progress. We test hypotheses, iterate rapidly, and seek constant user validation.

Ambition

We are driven to make a lasting positive impact on humanity. We believe AI has the potential to fundamentally change the human experience, and we are committed to being at the forefront of that transformation

Improvement

We thrive on learning through continuous experimentation, feedback, and adaptation. Mistakes are inevitable but offer opportunities to learn and improve. Our ambitions won’t be achieved by applying known solutions to existing problems.