Gabriel Gordon-hall
Cofounder & CTO at bloop
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Gordon-hall is a Cofounder and CTO with nine years of experience building developer-focused products at the intersection of NLP and systems engineering. Based in London, he leads bloop, a code search engine project where he drives backend architecture and performance work—bringing Rust-powered search, smarter snippet selection, and .gitignore-aware indexing into production. His background spans machine learning research at Huawei with ACL and AAAI publications, Y Combinator and Entrepreneur First cohorts, and an uncommon mix of humanities and technical training from Edinburgh and Birkbeck. Gabriel focuses on conversational AI and reinforcement learning for language tasks, combining research rigor with hands-on product and infrastructure execution.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. History History, B.A. History History at The University of EdinburghS21, S21 at Y CombinatorMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Birkbeck, University of London
Github Skills (6)
rust10
back-end-development10
api-design10
git9
algorithms8
algorithm8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BloopAI/bloop
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
bloop is a fast code search engine written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 releases, 436 reviews, 83 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the code search engine. Their work involved refactoring the codebase, including renaming CLI arguments and restructuring the state management. The user also made several improvements to the answer API, addressing prompt handling and snippet selection. Furthermore, they optimized the system by implementing a mechanism to respect .gitignore rules.
rustsearch-enginecode-searchblooprust-lang
ggordonhall/lyrics_gen
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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