Bryon Tjanaka
Software Engineer at Waymo
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolBryon Tjanaka is a software engineer and Ph.D. student-turned-researcher with eight years of experience building ML-driven systems at the intersection of robotics, reinforcement learning, and quality-diversity optimization. He developed pyribs and advanced open-source tooling while researching human-robot collaboration at USC’s ICAROS Lab, and applies those ideas in industry roles including a research internship at InstaDeep and his current position at Waymo. His background spans production engineering at Google—where his internships delivered measurable cost and performance wins—and hands-on molecular and protein-generation projects that required custom pipelines and model fine-tuning. Comfortable moving between research code and production systems, he teaches complex concepts (TA for robotics and AI courses) and ships robust tools used by collaborators. Based in Los Angeles, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to turn novel ML methods into usable software.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBellarmine College PreparatoryStanford UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (161)
parallel10
python10
gymnasium10
forge10
deep-learning10
ray10
optimization10
openai-gym10
neuroevolution10
evolutionary-computation10
api10
q-learning10
artificial-intelligence10
bare10
reinforcement-learning-environments10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
icaros-usc/pyribs.org
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
The pyribs home page
Contributions:4 PRs, 180 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
home-pagepython
icaros-usc/icaros-usc.github.io
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:162 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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