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 (149)
python10
deep-learning10
optimization10
openai-gym10
neuroevolution10
evolutionary-computation10
api10
artificial-intelligence10
reinforcement-learning-environments10
reinforcement-learning10
evolutionary-algorithms10
plugin10
javascript9
llm-inference9
ai9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
btjanaka/logdir
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
A Python library for managing logging directories.
Contributions:92 commits, 10 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 4 months
loggingpython
btjanaka/btjanaka
Jan 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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