Roger Zurawicki
Software Engineer at Surge AI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRoger Zurawicki is a software engineer and startup founder with 13 years of experience building AI-enabled productivity tools and developer infrastructure across startups and large tech firms. He has led engineering work at Meta Reality Labs on AR wearables and developer productivity, implemented smart-compose AI features for ByteDance’s Lark Suite, and helped build core product and infra at Coda. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and DevOps, he contributes to open source projects that automate developer workflows—examples include a GPT-powered commit-message hook and Meteor admin tooling. Based in New York, he combines product intuition with low-level engineering chops (Rust, emulation, AOSP) and a background as a “travel hacker,” which surfaces in pragmatic, efficiency-minded solutions.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Medford High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Harvard UniversityChinese Language, Chinese Language at Beijing Language and Culture University
English, French, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
git10
javascript10
scripting10
bash10
large-language-models10
script10
openai10
front-end-development10
sh10
rust10
shell10
meteor10
devops10
deployment-automation10
cli10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
zurawiki/gptcommit
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
A git prepare-commit-msg hook for authoring commit messages with GPT-3.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 165 commits, 176 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Roger contributed to the core functionality of the `gptcommit` project by implementing features and improving its integration. Their work focused on preparing commit messages by summarizing diffs, generating commit titles, and handling translations. The user demonstrated experience with Rust, large language models, and the Git ecosystem by leveraging these technologies to automate the commit message creation process.
rustauthoringprepare-commit-msgcommit-msgcommit
gterrono/houston
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
A zero-config, Django Admin-like admin for Meteor
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 issue in 5 days
Contributions summary:Roger primarily focused on improving the Houston admin interface for Meteor applications. Their contributions included refactoring and making the template names consistent. They fixed login screen issues and improved button alignment. The user also added a save message and implemented a bottom-screen alert, and they made minor refactorings to the routes/before filters.
adminmeteorzerodjangoconfig
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