Josh Dickson

I'm currently the founder of OpenNutrition. OpenNutrition builds transparent, AI-powered products that empower people to live healthier lives.

We publish the largest free, public nutritional database of everyday generic, branded, and restaurant foods.

Our gap-aware live search product, OpenNutrition DeepSearch, delivers accurate, comprehensive worldwide nutrition information for any food, ingredient, or brand, searching the web for food details not yet in our database.

Our flagship product, OpenNutrition for iOS, brings our innovative database and search technology to your pocket, with lightning-fast food search, adaptive expenditure tracking, and personalized nutrition coaching.

From 2018 to 2024, I was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Bid Ventures, a daily fantasy sports startup that operated fantasy scoring-based player markets. My responsibilities include setting our technical direction, growing our engineering team since its inception and leading our mission-critical market making operations.

I am credited as an inventor of many of our innovative clearinghouse and settlement mechanisms.

Bid Ventures was aquired by Splash Sports in mid-2024.

From 2017 to 2018, I was the Director of Engineering at Northout, where I was responsible for leading more than sixty globally-distributed engineers and designers. I also worked with a number of client startups to guide technical architecture, product design, and team building.

From 2014 to 2018, I was the founder and lead developer at Onecast, a podcast studio that developed WebRTC-based recording and editing software used by customers from the New York Times, CNBC and ESPN.

From 2012 to 2014, I worked on software design and development for the integration of LiDAR testing of automotive radar sensors at Autoliv.

I studied Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at WPI from 2009 to 2014.