curriculum vitae

brandon krull

technical founder and engineering leader. i build ai and data products from zero, mostly in real estate and venture, and i’m happiest working right alongside the people who use them.

what i’ve been doing

founder/ceo oct 2024 - 2026
alpha deal, the first company out of worldquant foundry, remote

ai-native underwriting for multifamily affordable-housing (lihtc) developers
agent workflows for site screening, capacity analysis, program design and pro formas, plus deal pipeline, portfolio management and an mcp tool suite
led a team of 4 through fundraising and go-to-market
lead inventor on 4 granted u.s. patents from the work, with more pending

head of data and engineering may 2022 - apr 2024
bags, new york, ny

first technical hire at a small-business finance startup
led a team of up to 4
built plaid bank connectivity and the core loan-marketplace matching between small businesses and lenders

investment partner, tech lead jun 2020 - sept 2023
angellist quant fund, san francisco, ca

built the entire backend for an automated selection process that deployed $25m into early-stage startups

lead machine learning platform engineer oct 2019 - jan 2022
angellist venture, san francisco, ca

eng lead for the ml platform and for the venture industry’s first public ml-driven capital allocator
cut data-warehouse costs 80%

technical co-founder oct 2019 - jan 2021
deelmine, real estate (stealth)

machine learning models to price real estate assets
an ops tool that increased process velocity 350% quarter over quarter

senior software and data engineer oct 2018 - oct 2019
noodle.ai, san francisco, ca

co-founder, operations, and full stack engineer 2016 - 2019
season search, san francisco, ca

data engineering fellow july 2018 - sept 2018
insight data science, palo alto, ca

computational sciences postdoctoral fellow jan 2017 - july 2018
lawrence berkeley national lab, berkeley, ca

graduate student researcher 2010 - 2015
uc irvine dept of chemistry, irvine, ca

education

ph.d., m.s. theoretical chemistry, uc irvine, 2015, 2012
b.s., chemistry, biotechnology, cal poly pomona, 2010

teaching, mentoring, outreach

mentor for high school students @ kennedy high school (2017-2019)

organizer for the march for science san francisco (2017)

science fair judge @ st. joachim school (2016)

skype interviews with local middle schools (2014-2016)

mentor for undergraduates: matriculations into cal, columbia, uc irvine (2011-2015)

experimental demo lead for “laboratory experiments and activities in the physical sciences” (leaps) (2013)

head teaching assistant for all general chemistry labs (2012)

awarded patents

Automating asset trading based on integrated entity analysis
BT Krull, SMA Husain, S Lau, TH Lee, A Marini Macouzet
US 12,639,757 B1, assigned to Alpha Deal LLC, granted May 26, 2026 patent

User interaction within a data analysis system
BT Krull, SMA Husain, S Lau, TH Lee, A Marini Macouzet
US 12,572,551 B1, assigned to Alpha Deal LLC, granted Mar 10, 2026 patent

Evaluating tokenized entities using an artificial intelligence (AI) model
BT Krull, SMA Husain, S Lau, TH Lee, A Marini Macouzet
US 12,524,809 B1, assigned to Alpha Deal LLC, granted Jan 13, 2026 patent

Providing access to composite AI-generated data
BT Krull, SMA Husain, S Lau, TH Lee, A Marini Macouzet
US 12,406,084 B1, assigned to Alpha Deal LLC, granted Sep 2, 2025 patent

journal articles

Parallel-In-Time Magnus Integrators
BT Krull and ML Minion
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 41 (5), A2999 2019 doi

Fitting a round peg into a round hole: Asymptotically correcting the generalized gradient approximation for correlation
A Cancio, GP Chen, BT Krull, K Burke
The Journal of Chemical Physics 149 (8), 0841163 2018 doi

Brominated luciferins are versatile bioluminescent probes
RC Steinhardt, CM Rathbun, BT Krull, JM Yu, Y Yang, BD Nguyen,
ChemBioChem 18 (1), 96-100 17 2017 doi

Accelerating molecular property calculations with nonorthonormal Krylov space methods
F Furche, BT Krull, BD Nguyen, J Kwon
The Journal of Chemical Physics 144 (17), 174105 16 2016 doi

Structural, Spectroscopic, and Theoretical Comparison of Traditional vs Recently Discovered Ln2+ Ions in the [K(2.2.2-cryptand)][(C5H4SiMe3)3Ln] Complexes: The Variable Nature of Dy2+ and Nd2+
ME Fieser, MR MacDonald, BT Krull, JE Bates, JW Ziller, F Furche,
Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (1), 369-382 100 2014 doi

Metal effects on ligand non-innocence in Group 5 complexes of the redox-active [ONO] pincer ligand
S Hananouchi, BT Krull, JW Ziller, F Furche, AF Heyduk
Dalton Transactions 43 (48), 17991-18000 26 2014 doi