Summary
Gregory Kofman is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building and hardening distributed systems, from Google Pub/Sub improvements to Managed Kafka. As a founding engineer at Lume and now driving low-latency, reliable inference at Baseten, he blends startup agility with production-grade service reliability. His background includes internships and research spanning deep learning, satellite astrophysics, and materials science, reflecting a taste for applying rigorous engineering to diverse, data-intensive problems. Gregory holds a BS in Engineering in Computer & Information Science with minors in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Pennsylvania. He’s particularly focused on cache utilization, throughput optimization, and operational efficiency—areas he improved while re-architecting Pub/Sub data paths. Based in New York, he combines systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation across cloud-native and ML-inference environments.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer & Information Science, Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer & Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Russian, German