Nalu Concepcion
Founder at Idler
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNalu Concepcion is a founder and software engineer with nine years of experience building systems at the intersection of cloud, AI, and education, currently based in San Francisco. After roles at Microsoft contributing to agentic recommendation engines and security-focused .NET services for Azure, Nalu has founded startups including Idler (building RL environments) and Widget Factory, and participated in YC S25. A Cornell CS & ORIE graduate, they have a strong teaching and mentorship background—delivering private CS instruction that helped students land internships and admissions at top programs. Their background spans product, infrastructure, and data science, with hands-on experience shipping resilient cloud services and developer tooling. An eclectic reader whose favorites range from Ted Chiang to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nalu combines technical rigor with literary curiosity, which surfaces in user-focused, thoughtful product design. Outside core engineering, they’ve co-founded community-focused ventures and run educational projects that translate complex ideas into accessible learning experiences.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Operations Research and Information Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell UniversityPhillips Academy
Spanish, Tagalog, English
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Github Skills (42)
firefox8
api8
chrome8
testing8
javascript7
test-automation7
routes6
react6
automation6
chromium6
puzzle6
e2e-testing6
puppeteer6
selenium6
electron6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
naluconcepcion/portfolio
Sep 2020 - Jul 2024
A temporary repo for showcasing my projects, interests, and miscellaneous musings. ✨ (To be migrated into a Jekyll workspace in time.)
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
my-projectsmiscellaneousworkspacejekyllmusings
srikaryallala/hackMIT
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:34 commits, 16 pushes in 2 days
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