Bjorn Hansen

Head of Software · City Detect

Engineering
leader, builder & entrepreneur.

I'm an engineering leader, builder, and entrepreneur. As Head of Software at City Detect, I lead the team building an AI-powered platform that turns street-level imagery data into insight cities and other partners can act on. Earlier I co-founded Blackbird, a coding-education startup that taught more than 15,000 middle and high school students. I care most about building things that do real work in the world, and about building the amazing teams that make it happen.

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01What I'm building

City Detect

2023 — present

Head of Software

City Detect uses AI to build cleaner, safer, and more livable cities — turning street-level imagery and data into insight that cities can act on. I lead the software team building and scaling the platform.

AI / ML · Computer Vision · Python · Cloud · Data Platforms

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02Background

Blackbird

Previous startup

Co-founder

Blackbird was a coding-education platform used in K-12 schools. We helped teach over 15,000 students to code in the classroom and demonstrated strong educational efficacy in pilots with prominent school districts in the United States and abroad, and released 4 popular Hour of Code activities on Code.org.

JavaScript · jQuery · PHP · PostgreSQL · Sass · Bootstrap · AWS

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03 — Get in touch

Let's talk.

Always happy to talk engineering, startups, or City Detect. I share most of what I'm thinking about on LinkedIn.