Louis Murerwa
Co-Founder And CTO OcularAI at Ocular AI (YC W24)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis Murerwa is a founder and engineering leader with eight years of experience building distributed systems and AI-powered products, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of OcularAI (YC W24) in San Francisco. Previously he engineered mission-critical, planet-scale services at Google including work on Chubby, and contributed to notable open-source projects like GoogleContainerTools/jib, improving Java container image tooling. He blends deep backend systems expertise with product instincts across real estate, payments, and urban architecture, and has a knack for drawing cross-domain parallels that turn abstract ideas into practical systems. A quick learner who gets bored fast, he channels that curiosity into shipping robust infrastructure and prototypes rapidly. Outside code he reads widely on economics, decision-making, and habit design, and occasionally reimagines transit systems—such as how the NYC subway might fit into Harare—bringing unconventional perspective to technical strategy.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Mathematics at Dartmouth CollegeHigh School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at St Patricks High School ,Gweru
English, Bantu, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
javas10
container10
docker10
dockers10
java10
gradlew9
gradle9
maven9
api8
testing8
apidoc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleContainerTools/jib
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
🏗 Build container images for your Java applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 57 PRs, 196 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Louis primarily contributed to the `jib` project by addressing several issues related to container image building for Java applications. Their work included fixing bugs such as handling null pointer exceptions, and improving error handling in the registry endpoint caller. They also implemented and tested features like pulling manifests, and added configuration parameters for platforms within the maven and gradle plugins. The user also refactored code and addressed the project build plan API.
containersdocker-registrymaven-plugingradlemaven
OcularEngineering/ocular
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
AI Powered Search and Chat for Orgs - Think ChatGPT meets Google Search but powered by your data.
Contributions:2 releases, 123 reviews, 171 PRs in 3 months
aichatgptenterprise-searchllmrag
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