David Tam
Staff Software Engineer at Guardrails AI
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Tam is a Staff Software Engineer and experienced engineering leader with 15 years building full-stack, cloud-native systems from seed-stage startups to post-acquisition teams in the Bay Area. He’s led and scaled engineering teams at SetSail—driving features like AI Sales Analyst, LLM orchestration, and OIDC-authorized partner APIs—while still shipping production code in Node.js/TypeScript, React, and AWS. David combines hands-on architecture and CI/CD/infra-as-code expertise (Terraform, Docker, Fargate) with a strong emphasis on developer productivity, having driven a 50% velocity improvement through design system work and cut release verification times from days to hours. He’s skilled in prompt engineering and RAG workflows, having reduced generative AI error rates by about 30% through tuning and orchestration. Based in California and backed by a UC Berkeley bioengineering degree, he brings a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to integrating ML/AI into product flows alongside solid mentoring and hiring experience.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Bioengineering, BS Bioengineering at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (38)
large-language-models10
llm10
openai10
rest-client10
ai10
sugarcrm10
javascript9
rest9
rest-api9
fastapi5
pii5
cordova4
nodejs4
meteor-package4
python3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
guardrails-ai/llamaguard-7b
Aug 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
guardrails-ai/shieldgemma-2b
Aug 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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