Taeer Bar-yam
Developer Productivity Software Engineer at Tweag
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaeer Bar-yam is a Developer Productivity Software Engineer based in San Carlos with 12 years of engineering experience and a BA in Mathematics from Cornell. He combines a strong theoretical grounding in algebra, logic, and type theory with practical systems programming skills across C, Python, Haskell and more, and a habit of reducing problems to elegant abstractions. At Tweag he focuses on developer tooling and productivity, and his open-source work includes backend improvements to the well-known Nix package manager—enhancing its parser, evaluator, and build logging. Comfortable working both independently and in small teams, he pairs curiosity-driven tinkering (from custom scripts to physical contraptions) with attention to interpersonal dynamics and team-centered collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics at Cornell UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Commonwealth School
Github Skills (14)
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functional-programming10
c-language10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
nix10
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text-parsing9
lex9
evaluation9
parsing9
lexical-analysis9
testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
NixOS/nix
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Taeer primarily contributed to the Nix package manager's backend, focusing on improving the expression language parser and evaluator. Their work included implementing path antiquotations, which involved modifying the lexer and parser to handle interpolated paths. They also addressed issues related to path canonicalization and output handling within the evaluation process, along with adding tests to validate the changes. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the build logging and flake template systems.
functional-programmingnixosdeclarative-languagec-plus-pluspackage-manager
Radvendii/nix
Jul 2021 - Feb 2025
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Contributions:18 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 7 months
nixospackage-managerpurely-functional
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