Nicholas Pun
Software Engineer at Weights & Biases
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Pun is a software engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building production systems across startups and large tech companies, now at Weights & Biases. He holds a double major in Combinatorics & Optimization and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and blends strong theoretical interests—especially in combinatorial optimization and computer algebra—with practical engineering. His background includes low-latency visualization tools for autonomous vehicles at Woven Planet/Lyft, infrastructure and microservices work at AWS, and full-stack product development at Rippling and earlier startups. Nicholas is increasingly focused on deep learning methods and actively seeking opportunities that bridge his optimization expertise with ML systems. He maintains a public coding portfolio on GitHub showcasing web development and tooling projects and has a history of improving developer workflows and observability in production environments. Colleagues describe him as a curious problem-solver who moves comfortably between research-minded thinking and shipping pragmatic, scalable software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Gifted Education Diploma in Academic Excellence with Honours, Gifted Education Diploma in Academic Excellence with Honours at Westmount Charter SchoolBachelor of Mathematics Double Majored in Combinatorics/Optimization and Computer Science (with Business Option), Bachelor of Mathematics Double Majored in Combinatorics/Optimization and Computer Science (with Business Option) at University of Waterloo
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
mkontani/FIDO2AndroidDemoApp
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:7 commits in 4 months
niconico-pun/dev.yubico
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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