Franek Mirkowski
Research Engineer, ElevenLabs
Key facts
- Joined defense startup SalesPatriot (Y Combinator cohort) at age 15.
- Dropped out of high school to pursue deep learning research and a full-time software career.
- Hired as a teenager by ElevenLabs, serving as a Research Engineer working on deep learning.
- Highlighted as an example of the high-agency, young technical talent recruited into ElevenLabs' core engineering team.
Biography
Franek Mirkowski is a Polish software and research engineer specializing in deep learning. He began his career at age 15 as an early engineer at Y Combinator-backed defense startup SalesPatriot before dropping out of high school to focus on artificial intelligence research. He subsequently joined ElevenLabs as a Research Engineer, contributing to the development of its core AI voice models.