Jediah Katz
Software Engineer at Cursor
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJediah Katz is a software engineer with a decade of experience building developer-facing and AI infrastructure products, currently working on Cursor in New York. He previously shipped prototypes and AI infra at Figma and helped teach advanced problem-solving and constraint/symbolic techniques as a lecturer at UPenn. His background spans startups and large companies—from firmware tooling at Tesla and distributed systems at Shoreline to developer tools at Dropbox—showing fluency across systems, tooling, and ML-adjacent stacks. He holds both BSE and MSE in Computer Science from UPenn and has a knack for turning academic techniques (SAT, IP, constraint programming) into practical engineering solutions. Notably, he’s been building at the intersection of product-facing prototyping and internal AI infrastructure, bringing research-informed rigor to product shipping.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Friends SeminaryMaster of Science in Engineering (MSE) Computer Science, Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
linear-programming10
optimization10
vehicle-routing-problem10
operations-research10
gurobi10
combinatorial-optimization10
simulated-annealing10
constraint-programming10
xor9
command-line9
console9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
percentage8
database8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jediahkatz/dotfiles
Dec 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
jediahkatz/blog
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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