Curtis Chambers

CTO of Voio. PhD Student in Computational Precision Health at UC Berkeley and UCSF. San Francisco, CA.

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Experience

2026 – present

Chief Technology Officer

Voio · San Francisco, CA

  • Building petabyte-scale data infrastructure and machine learning models for radiology.
2025 – present

PhD Student, Computational Precision Health

UC Berkeley + UCSF · Berkeley and San Francisco, CA

  • Computer vision for radiology, advised by Adam Yala.
  • Cardiology research, advised by Geoff Tison.
Jul 2021 – present

Board Member, Board of Trustees

University of San Diego · San Diego, CA

  • Founded and funded the Center for Digital Civil Society, which advocates for equitable and responsible AI and data science.
  • Created a fund that sends students to the NSBE, SHPE, SWE, SASE and ACM conferences.
  • Created a scholarship for international women in computer science.
  • Serves on the Investment and Academic Affairs committees.
2017 – present

Angel Investor and Startup Advisor

Independent · San Francisco, CA

Dec 2010 – Oct 2017

Head of Engineering

Uber · San Francisco, CA

  • Joined when Uber had about 10 drivers and a $1M gross bookings run rate; gross bookings reached $34.4B in 2017.
  • Designed the architecture for the whole software stack: the real-time dispatch system, mobile apps, pricing, queuing and data science systems.
  • Grew engineering from 3 to 40 engineers before hiring a CTO to take over management.
  • Created the Growth team that helped Uber expand to cities worldwide.
  • Started UberEats and UberFreight and led the engineering teams that built them.
Jun 2009 – Dec 2010

Senior Software Engineer

Expensify · San Francisco, CA

  • Built the backend business logic, the website and the iOS app.
  • Built a workflow that scanned receipts with AI and humans within 15 seconds of upload.
Dec 2007 – Jun 2009

Senior Software Engineer

Akamai · San Francisco, CA

  • Built the client-side JavaScript library for the P2P download manager used by Adobe, Blizzard and the NFL.
  • Embedded with large clients, such as Blizzard’s Battle.net, to rebuild their software on the P2P stack.

Earlier experience

Sep 2005 – Jun 2007

Lead Software Engineer and Systems Administrator

Trouvé Media · Burlingame, CA

Sep 2002 – Sep 2005

Founder and CTO

Roboserver Systems · San Diego, CA

  • Built restaurant point-of-sale systems and the first self-serve restaurant kiosk, deployed across San Diego.
Feb 2003 – May 2004

Lead Performance Engineer

First American Corporation · San Diego, CA

May 2002 – Aug 2002

Research Assistant, Computer Science

UC San Diego · San Diego, CA

Jun 2000 – Aug 2001

Test Engineer

Lightspan · San Diego, CA

Sep 1999 – May 2000

Math Teacher

San Diego City Schools · San Diego, CA

Education

2025 – present

PhD Student, Computational Precision Health

UC Berkeley + UCSF · Berkeley and San Francisco, CA

2019

B.S. Computer Science

University of San Diego · San Diego, CA

Patents

Filed July 2013

Providing on-demand services through use of portable computing devices

US 9,230,292

Filed March 2013

Enabling a user to verify a price change for an on-demand service

US 2013/0268406 (application)

Teaching

Guest lecturer in engineering, data science and business courses at UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC San Diego and University of San Diego.