Kenneth Pirman
Technical Staff at Character.AI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Pirman is a Technical Staff engineer at Character.AI with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience building consumer web apps, visualization tools, and developer-facing SDKs. A self-taught programmer and polyglot linguist, he blends web engineering, graphics rendering, and procedural generation expertise gained at Blue Brain Project, Nexthink, and indie mobile games studios. He’s led front-end architecture and no-code workflow tooling, re-engineered serverless platforms for performance and cost, and spent a recent Recurse Center residency developing generative ML models for terrain and mechanistic interpretability. Comfortable in research-adjacent teams and fast-moving startups, he brings a rare mix of neuroscience data UI experience, large-scale JavaScript systems thinking, and hands-on procedural content craftsmanship. Based in Brooklyn but forged across Geneva, Berlin, and Beijing, he pairs technical leadership with cultural and linguistic fluency that aids global collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Linguistics at The University of Texas at AustinCET Flagship Intensive Language program @HIT Mandarin Chinese Guided Research in Classical & Modern Mandarin Poetry, CET Flagship Intensive Language program @HIT Mandarin Chinese Guided Research in Classical & Modern Mandarin Poetry at Harbin Institute of TechnologyCET Intensive Language program @BIE Mandarin Chinese Chinese, CET Intensive Language program @BIE Mandarin Chinese Chinese at Beijing Institute of Education
English, Chinese, German, French
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Github Skills (166)
threejs10
github10
react-three-fiber10
shacl10
data-driven10
javascript10
planetary10
knowledge-graph10
sdk10
scene10
science10
git10
graph10
typescript10
nexus10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BlueBrain/nexus-search-webapp
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
The Searchable Knowledge-Graph Application
Contributions:3 releases, 278 commits, 113 PRs in 1 year 11 months
reactknowledgejavascriptknowledge-graphnexus
kenjinp/hello-worlds
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Virtual javascript worlds at planetary scales for your threejs or react-three-fiber scene 👋🌐
Contributions:1 review, 109 commits, 42 PRs in 7 months
worldsreactplanetarywebgljavascript
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