Erik Gafni leads technical work at TypeSafe AI, where he builds production AI systems and infrastructure. Previously, he founded Eventum.ai, which built and led machine-learning teams for startups, and co-founded Ravel Biotechnology, developing neural-network methods for genomic data and early cancer detection. Earlier, he worked in computational biology and bioinformatics at Freenome, Invitae, and Harvard Medical School.
Co-founder and CTO
Builds production AI systems and technical infrastructure for TypeSafe AI.
Founder and CEO
Helped organizations accelerate their AI work.
Co-founder
Developed multimodal neural networks for genetic sequencing data and early cancer detection.
Senior Computational Biologist — Machine Learning
Developed machine-learning methods for early colorectal cancer detection from blood-based analytes.
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
Built clinical genomics models and production variant-calling infrastructure; co-authored foundational patents.
Scientific Advisor
Applied machine learning and bioinformatics to genomics and autism research; developed an open-source scientific workflow manager.
Middle School Teacher
B.S. Computer Science
Bachelor of Health Science, Physiology
