Assaf Vayner
Software Engineer at Hugging Face
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAssaf Vayner is a software engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building backend services and managing cloud infrastructure. A University of Washington CS graduate, he focuses on Rust and Go for scalable web services and leverages Pulumi to provision complex AWS environments. His recent roles include engineering positions at Hugging Face and XetHub, and multiple internships at Amazon where he worked on Amazon Luna. Beyond production systems, he has research experience from the Molecular Information Systems Lab and hands-on robotics software work with Husky Robotics and FIRST, reflecting a strong practical foundation in distributed systems and embedded control. Colleagues describe him as curious and fast-learning, often exploring new technologies to bridge research ideas into robust, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and minor in Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and minor in Mathematics at University of Washington
English, Hebrew, Chinese
Github Skills (42)
pytorch10
hub10
language-model10
api-client10
huggingface-hub10
machine-learning10
storage10
inference10
natural-language-understanding10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
rust10
cli10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
assafvayner/CSE163TrailAndWeather
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:44 pushes, 6 branches in 5 days
xetdata/k8s-csi-xetfs
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
Kubernetes Container Storage Interface Plugin for XetHub
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
container-storage-interfacekubernetes
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