Sourabh Desai
Staff Software Engineer at Tinder
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSourabh Desai is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building production systems across startups and large tech companies. A UIUC CS graduate, he’s shipped data-intensive real-time services at Amazon that processed billions of events daily and helped found early engineering at LlamaIndex connecting LLM reasoning to real-world data. He thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, ML, and fast iteration—building automation, RAG/Agent tooling, web automation services, and quantum computing integrations along the way. Comfortable leading teams or diving deep in code, he balances speed with engineering rigor and a pragmatic, product-focused mindset. His GitHub showcases a steady, line-by-line craft ethos: “Getting good one line at a time.”
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignSchaumburg High School
English, Kannada, Hindi
Stackoverflow
380reputation
40kreached
9answers
17questions
Github Skills (53)
sendgrid10
pdf-to-text10
pdf10
vector-database10
llm10
parsing10
fine-tuning10
structured-data10
data-structures10
gpt10
application10
plot9
transactional-emails9
mathematics8
nodejs8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
run-llama/sec-insights
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A real world full-stack application using LlamaIndex
Contributions:9 reviews, 72 PRs, 97 pushes in 1 year 6 months
sourabhdesai/llama_index
May 2023 - Apr 2025
LlamaIndex (GPT Index) is a project that provides a central interface to connect your LLM's with external data.
Contributions:2 PRs, 332 pushes, 92 branches in 1 year 10 months
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