Sayan Sarkar
Software Engineer
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSayan Sarkar is a Berlin-based software engineer with 10 years of experience building production-grade systems and conducting AI research, particularly in inverse reinforcement learning and AI alignment. He has led engineering efforts at early-stage companies, architected and shipped a security data platform as the founding frontend engineer at Tenzir, and built real-time production systems that handle large-scale data. An active open-source maintainer, he manages about 100 Nix packages for nixpkgs, reflecting deep tooling and reproducibility expertise. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks (SvelteKit, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI) and with web3 tooling from his DAO platform work, he blends rigorous academic training in mathematics with practical product delivery. Notably, his background in AI alignment research informs a safety-minded approach to building scalable, reliable software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune
Github Skills (200)
csrf10
vim10
webextension10
solidjs10
dataops10
keyboard-layout10
firefox10
aggregates10
nixpkgs10
nodejs10
svelte10
zeplin10
oauth10
nix10
react-table10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
dit7ya/hnlinks
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
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Contributions:38 commits, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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dit7ya/awesome-irl
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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