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Tony Montes

Tony Montes

AI researcher and founder building production GenAI systems

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San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Joined April 2026

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Applied NLP and historical-language research: Tony has published and built tools focused on historical Spanish corpora, OCR correction, and semantic shift detection, combining contextual embeddings and dataset engineering to enable NLP research on 19th-century texts. aclanthology+2
Startup founder and operator in AI: He co-founded Zolvo and serves as Founder & CTO, leading engineering to build AI systems that automate commercial-lending servicing workflows and has joined Y Combinator with the company. ycombinator+2
Systems-level engineering and production GenAI experience: With dual training in systems and electronics engineering and research internships, he combines academic ML research with production work—deploying voice-AI and high-throughput infrastructure in fintech contexts. github+2
Open-source and community-facing contributions: Tony maintains code and demo spaces (GitHub, Hugging Face) and shares datasets, notebooks, and spaces that support reproducible NLP and multimodal research. github+2

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Contributes to open-source datasets and ML/AI demo spaces github+1

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SASantiago Avellasaid
TMTony Montes
is one of the most thoughtful technical leaders they've worked with on shipping AI agents for companies handling sensitive data.

Apr 15, 2026