Jay Deng
Founding Engineer at Tako
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Deng is a founding engineer based in San Francisco with four years of hands-on experience building search and vector search systems at AWS and TikTok and now leading product at Tako. He’s a maintainer on the OpenSearch core repo, blending production-grade engineering with open-source stewardship—his GitHub motto, “OSS is the infinite game with my life,” reflects that commitment. Jay’s background spans search performance, storage, and resource access systems, giving him deep expertise in scalable, low-latency infrastructure. He moved quickly through roles at AWS from SDE I to Senior SDE working on OpenSearch Vector Search, demonstrating fast technical growth and ownership. A dual-degree graduate from Penn State in Computer Science and Economics, he combines rigorous engineering with an appreciation for system-level tradeoffs and product impact. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who prefers shipping robust, measurable improvements while investing in the longevity of community-driven tooling.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Schreyer Honors College at Penn StateBachelor’s Degree Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Economics at Penn State University
Chinese, French, English
Github Skills (34)
crud-application10
low-code10
retool10
typescript10
app-builder10
terminal-app10
internal-tools10
backend10
developer-tools10
react10
ui-components9
javascript9
no-code9
golang9
rust9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
illacloud/illa
May 2022 - Jan 2023
🚀 Deploy a modern low-code platform in 5 Seconds!
Contributions:20 releases, 2 reviews, 131 commits in 8 months
terminal-appdeploylow-codedockerlow-code-platform
illacloud/builder-backend
May 2022 - Jan 2023
ILLA Builder Backend
Contributions:35 releases, 3 reviews, 292 commits in 8 months
backendillabuilder
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