Eden Golshani
Chief Technology Officer at Stretch
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEden Golshani is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building teams and systems across crypto, finance, social media, and government sectors. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning Java, Ruby, backend architecture, NLP, and graph databases—with strategic leadership, having co-founded a startup acquired by WeWork and led engineering transformations at companies like Public.com and Trellis Group. His work on internationalization and NLP at Twitter and contributions to Twitter's text/tokenization libraries highlight deep expertise in multilingual text handling and robust regex-driven solutions. Known for scaling organizations and modernizing infrastructure, he pairs operational rigor with a focus on joyful, high-performing cultures and mentoring engineers from junior to staff levels. Based in New York, he brings a rare intersection of product intuition, cross-functional collaboration, and applied computational linguistics.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computational Linguistics, MS, Computational Linguistics at Georgetown UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
English, Arabic, Persian, Spanish, Tibetan, Italian
Github Skills (7)
javas10
objective-c10
javascript10
regex10
java10
unicode10
ruby10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/twitter-text
Dec 2014 - Jul 2017
Twitter Text Libraries. This code is used at Twitter to tokenize and parse text to meet the expectations for what can be used on the platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Eden primarily focused on updating and refining regular expressions related to hashtag parsing within the codebase. They made significant changes across multiple files, including JavaScript, Java, Ruby, and Objective-C files, to improve hashtag handling. Their work included adding support for special characters and Unicode characters to the regexes, improving compatibility across different languages and platforms. Furthermore, the user updated comments, which demonstrates a focus on code maintainability.
emojiobjective-ctokenizeexpectationsruby
edengol/raffaele
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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