Summary
Gilman Tolle is a versatile engineer and builder with 12 years of experience designing and shipping backend services, web and iOS apps, databases, network protocols, and embedded systems. Currently a Member of Technical Staff on OpenAI’s Sora team, he previously led YouTube Comments as a tech lead and co-founded two consumer-focused startups, one of which was acquired. He blends deep systems and distributed-systems expertise with product instincts from founding roles, routinely moving projects from prototype to production at scale. His background includes academic research and teaching in sensor networks and energy systems, giving him uncommon depth in low-level networking and applied data science. Based in San Francisco, he is comfortable across the full stack and in cross-disciplinary roles that bridge hardware, networking, and ML-enabled applications.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. (accepted to Ph.D. program left early to do a startup) Computer Science, M.S. (accepted to Ph.D. program left early to do a startup) Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
B.S. Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, B.S. Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University