Kaolin Fire is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berkeley with eight years of professional experience and a long history of indie game and iOS development stretching back decades. At Meta they invent novel GenAI-driven features to catalyze creativity and community, and previously led rapid 0-to-1 prototyping across diverse social products for NPE. Kaolin blends deep systems and computer vision expertise—from building visual search at Amazon to accessibility-focused vision apps—with hands-on product, hardware, and process work as a principal architect. A published fiction and poetry writer with a background in EECS (bioelectrical emphasis) from UC Berkeley, they bring both creative storytelling and technical rigor to product design. Notably, they’ve repeatedly moved projects from napkin sketches to shipped prototypes, pairing mentoring and specification discipline with pragmatic engineering.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Bioelectrical emphasis), BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Bioelectrical emphasis) at University of California, Berkeley
Contributions:29 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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