Ella Fontenot- AI Engineer Full-Stack

Ella Fontenot is an Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Olelo Intelligence, with a strong focus on iOS development, AI tooling, and agentic coding systems. She brings entrepreneurial experience as the co-founder and CTO of Whim., where she built and successfully deployed a production iOS app, and previously worked on agentic coding R&D at a Palo Alto AI startup. Prior to these roles, she gained valuable iOS engineering experience through an internship at Go Car Insurance. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz with a B.S. in Computer Science, Ella was also a nationally ranked collegiate surfer. Beyond engineering, she is dedicated to tech education, volunteering as a coding instructor for organizations such as Newton Free Library and Girls Who Code.