Desmond Grealy
Head Of Technology at Intel Corporation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDesmond Grealy is a Head of Technology based in San Francisco with a breadth of experience across major tech companies and startups, from Apple and Google to Meta and Intel. He blends hands-on software development—particularly front-end UI work for notable open-source projects like LAION-AI/Open-Assistant—with leadership roles that span product-quality and engineering management. His background includes building ML training data collection tools at Meta and co-founding an AI startup, giving him both operational and entrepreneurial perspective on ML systems. Known for shifting between QA, development, and technical leadership, he brings a pragmatic focus on shipping polished user experiences and scalable tooling. Despite a relatively compact recent tenure count, his career shows deep familiarity with large-platform engineering and open-source collaboration.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
nextjs10
front-end-development10
react10
chakra-ui9
javascript9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
ui-design8
css7
ai5
assistants4
vitual-assistant4
virtual-assistant4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 29 commits, 12 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Desmond primarily focused on front-end development within the OpenAssistant repository. They implemented layout adjustments for the home page, including header transparency, and added stories for the header component. Further contributions involved theming and styling updates using Chakra UI, and UI-related renaming/refactoring. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the user interface and overall application design.
language-modelpythonpartyassistantchat
k-nearest-neighbor/Open-Assistant
Dec 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:33 pushes, 12 branches in 3 months
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