Georgijs Vilums
Member Of Technical Staff at Etched
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGeorgijs Vilums is a software engineer with seven years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco after recent roles at Bun and as Co-Founder & CTO of SID.ai. He brings deep systems and backend expertise, having contributed performance-focused features to the widely used Bun JavaScript runtime—implementing PerformanceObserver, PerformanceMeasure, and PerformanceMark integrations. His background spans startup leadership and hands-on engineering, combining product instincts from founding SID.ai with low-level runtime improvements at Bun. Georgijs holds computer science credentials from ETH Zürich and MIT, reflecting strong academic foundations alongside practical delivery. Known for simplifying complex internals (including comptime string equality fixes and WebKit binding work), he excels at turning subtle performance issues into robust, test-covered features. He pairs entrepreneurial grit with a focus on measurable system performance and developer-facing runtime tooling.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorComputer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
German, Latvian, English, Russian, French
Github Skills (8)
bun10
javascript10
webkit9
zig8
transpiler7
typescripts6
typescript6
typescript-types6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oven-sh/bun
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:145 reviews, 96 PRs, 362 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Georgijs's commits primarily focus on implementing and improving the `PerformanceObserver` API within the Bun JavaScript runtime. This involves creating and testing features related to performance measurement, including the integration of `PerformanceMeasure`, `PerformanceMark`, and related functionalities. The user also addresses performance-related issues by contributing to the underlying WebKit bindings and improving the handling of measures within the system. Additionally, the user contributed to fix and simplify comptime string equality.
runtimeexecutablejavascriptpackage-manageresmodules
gvilums/raytracer
Feb 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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