Tarak U
Software Engineer at Birdie
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTarak U is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable systems and ML-driven developer tools from seed-stage startups to acquired companies, currently at Birdie in San Francisco. He helped define Kite’s core architecture, led cross-platform and privacy-first transitions, and built end-to-end pipelines to train and serve transformer models for code, including multi-GPU scaling and CPU inference on clients. His background spans low-level high-performance C++ search infrastructure, production lab automation, and consumer features at Dropbox, giving him uncommon breadth across systems, ML, and product. Comfortable both leading small distributed teams and shipping deep technical work, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a track record of shipping features that reached wide developer audiences.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (25)
autocomplete10
kite10
atom-plugin10
zeplin9
sketchup9
visual-studio8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
programming-language8
golang8
go7
interpreter6
compiler5
visual-studio-code5
odin3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kiteco/fsevents
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
FSEvents for Go (OS X) - Clean room implementation.
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 2 months
golangroomcleangoos-x
kiteco/go-tree-sitter
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 commits in 3 months
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