Syrus Nieto
Wasmer - YCS19
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSyrus Nieto is a founder and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building developer-facing platforms and cloud-native runtimes from San Francisco. As CEO of Wasmer (YC S19) and Graphene, he blends systems-level engineering—especially WebAssembly runtimes and tooling—with product-driven API design. His hands-on background spans full-stack work, test automation, and build-system optimization across high-profile open-source projects like Wasmer and Graphene/graphene-python. A mathematician by training, he brings a rigorous, pragmatic approach to complex problems and has repeatedly improved testing, documentation, and developer ergonomics in the projects he touches. Known for shipping infrastructure-level fixes and developer tools (e.g., wasm packages, GraphQL libraries, and integrations for Django/SQLAlchemy), he combines founder-level vision with deep implementation chops.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Mathematics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (56)
javascript10
pytest10
lexer10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
llvm10
testing10
dsl10
typescript10
metadata10
template-engine10
rust-wasm10
smtp10
smtps10
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
syrusakbary/pyjade
Nov 2011 - Sep 2016
Jade template system for Django, Jinja2 and Mako
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:193 commits, 18 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Syrus primarily focused on enhancing the pyjade project, a template system adapter. Their contributions involved modifying the lexer, nodes, and compiler components to improve functionality and fix bugs. They also added and modified unit tests using nose, and implemented specific extensions for Django, Jinja2, and Mako template engines, demonstrating a focus on improving template compilation and integration. The user also introduced support for static and dynamic attributes.
template-enginetemplatepythonjinja2django
graphql-python/graphene-sqlalchemy
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
Graphene SQLAlchemy integration
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 78 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Syrus contributed to the test suite by adding and updating test requirements, specifically integrating `sqlalchemy_utils`. They also fixed pep8 errors, improving code style and readability. Moreover, they updated the graphene-sqlalchemy version and added documentation. Their contributions focused on maintaining and improving the project's testing and documentation aspects.
pythonsqlalchemyfastapigraphqlgraphene
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