Sarah Wooders
Co-founder & CTO at Letta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Wooders is a Co-founder and CTO with a decade of experience building high-performance systems at the intersection of multicore, distributed systems, and performance engineering. She combines deep academic research—PhD work at Berkeley RISE Lab under Ion Stoica and Joe Gonzalez—with hands-on startup leadership as founder/CEO of a YC-backed e-commerce data startup and now leading Letta. Her background includes low-level systems work at MIT CSAIL and industry internships optimizing databases and trading systems, giving her a rare mix of production tuning and parallel-algorithm expertise. Based in San Francisco, she leverages rigorous CS and mathematics training from MIT and Berkeley to ship scalable, performance-sensitive infrastructure that bridges research ideas to commercial products. An early pattern in her career is translating academic systems research into practical startup solutions, evidencing both technical depth and entrepreneurial execution.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science (AI Systems), PhD, Computer Science (AI Systems) at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering (6-3), Mathematics (18), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering (6-3), Mathematics (18) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Japanese
Github Skills (65)
gcp10
rsync10
ai10
data-transfer10
gpt10
cuda10
inference10
sky10
llm10
aws10
multicloud9
application9
llmops9
azure9
transformer9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RSenApps/keychain
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Distributed Authentication on the Ethereum Blockchain
Contributions:51 commits, 28 pushes in 3 months
gethetherscanethereumblockchainauthentication
sarahwooders/skyplane
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
🔥 Blazing fast bulk data transfers between any cloud 🔥
Contributions:1 PR, 150 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
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