Cole Winstanley is an experienced engineering professional currently working in an engineering role at Aura since July 2024. Prior to this position, Winstanley served as Senior Engineering Manager at CLEAR from September 2023 to June 2024, and co-founded Sora ID where Winstanley held the position of CEO from April 2020 to October 2023. Additional experience includes a data science consulting role at Lufa Farms Inc., as well as a software engineering internship at Google, focusing on infrastructure for Chrome. Earlier roles included machine learning engineering at Weissman Lab at Stanford, engineering internship at CarGurus, and research internship at Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, where Winstanley's work involved programming in Python and OpenCV. Winstanley holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems, both from Stanford University.