Glen Takahashi
Co-Founder And Chief Architect at Hex Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGlen Takahashi is a founder and chief architect with 12 years of experience building data-intensive products and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprise deployments. He cut his teeth as a forward-deployed engineer at Palantir, where he led large government and cross-functional deployments, created plugin APIs, and authored Spark tutorials to improve performance for internal and external users. At Hex Technologies he combines product instincts with hands-on architecture, and earlier roles ranged from engineering management at TrialSpark to backend work on distributed systems and server infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, Glen has improved Jupyter’s ipykernel by hardening async kernel behavior and fixing blocking-queue bugs—reflecting a practical focus on reliability in complex pipelines. Based in the Bay Area and shaped by UCLA CS training, he blends technical depth with a knack for translating messy data problems into intuitive user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Lynbrook High School - Class of 2011Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Senior at University of California, Los Angeles
Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
kernel10
jupyter-kernels10
ipython10
python10
jupyter10
testing10
async9
asynchronous9
zeromq8
htaccess6
css6
symlink6
caching6
awk6
android6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ipython/ipykernel
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
IPython Kernel for Jupyter
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Glen contributed to the `ipykernel` project, focusing on improving kernel functionality and error handling. Their work involved refactoring code to use `io_loop` for asynchronous operations. The user implemented tests and fixed potential issues related to aborting execute requests. They also addressed a bug that caused blocking messages in the queue.
kernelipython-kernelpythonjupyter-notebookjupyterlab
glentakahashi/oh-my-zsh
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 200+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 140 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years
pythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-updatecapistrano
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