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 (39)
llm10
openai10
ai10
sugarcrm10
api-client9
rest-client9
api9
rest-api8
rest8
javascript8
hydrogen5
cordova4
docker-image4
nodejs4
meteor4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rivierapartners/greenhouse_io
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Ruby API wrapper for Greenhouse.io API
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
api-clientapiapi-wrapperrubyruby-api-wrapper
zergylord/Matlab-Go
Dec 2010 - Mar 2012
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 3 months
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