Tanooj Luthra
Member Of Technical Staff at Pioneer Fund
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTanooj Luthra is a seasoned engineer and founder with 14 years building high-scale systems across startups and hyperscalers, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and co-founder/CTO of Nerve AI. He has led core product and platform teams at Brex (starting Brex Cash and observability foundations), built and exited two YC-backed startups (Streem -> Box Drive, Elph -> Brex), and earlier scaled crypto payments at Coinbase. Comfortable shipping deep systems work — from kernel-mode desktop drivers to backend event streams (notably contributing to Box’s Java SDK event handling) — he bridges infrastructure, product, and go-to-market execution. An active angel investor and venture partner at Pioneer Fund, he pairs technical leadership with startup-building instincts and a track record of integrating acquisitions into flagship products.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyY Combinator
English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
javas10
sdk10
event-handling10
box-api10
api-design10
java10
testing9
fest7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
box/box-java-sdk
Dec 2014 - May 2015
The Box SDK for Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 17 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tanooj contributed to the core functionality of the Box SDK for Java, focusing on improvements to event handling and API interactions. They fixed bugs related to duplicate events and improved the event stream's configurability by adding options for setting a starting position. The user also added a feature to expose the URL from a BoxAPIRequest and added optional functions for preflight checks.
boxbox-sdksdkjava11jar
TLuthra/box-java-sdk
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 day
javabox-sdksdkbox
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