Lawrence Tsang
Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLawrence Tsang is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with over a decade of experience building high-scale storage, serving, and AI systems across ads, reporting, inventory forecasting, and data protection. He blends deep algorithmic and mathematical training with practical engineering—spanning C++, Java, Spark/Beam, and modern frontends—to deliver low-latency, testable infrastructure and consumer-facing workflows. At Google Labs he focuses on generative and planning AI (prompt/fine-tuning, grounding, agentic tool use, Q-learning/MCTS) while inventing efficient summarization techniques for agent behavior statistics (patent) and publishing research on related topics. His background ranges from architecting DoubleClick-era ad systems to launching Nielsen and comScore integrations and next-generation stateful streaming platforms, highlighting a rare mix of product impact and systems research. Based in New York, he is known for cross-team coordination on horizontal changes that affect many products and for turning theoretical ideas into production-grade, measurable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtPh.D. Candidate, Mathematics, Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics at Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
Github Skills (17)
vector-database10
llm10
fine-tuning10
data-structures10
gpt10
application10
language-server6
python6
language-server-protocol5
linux5
conda5
package-management4
code-analysis4
ecosystem3
package-manager2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pikalaw/llama_index
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
LlamaIndex (GPT Index) is a data framework for your LLM applications
Contributions:39 reviews, 13 PRs, 88 pushes in 4 months
pikalaw/algorithm
May 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:29 pushes in 9 years 11 months
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