Summary
Tianpei Gu is a software engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in generative media and large-scale data pipelines, currently a Member of Technical Staff at a stealth startup in San Jose. He has driven research and engineering efforts at ByteDance, krea.ai, and Lexica, focusing on video and image generation pretraining, avatar systems, and end-to-end data infrastructure. A UCLA CS master’s graduate with a double major in CS and Math from University of Maryland, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on model pretraining and productionization. Known for shipping tooling and pipelines that bridge research and product, he often operates at the intersection of research science and pragmatic engineering.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Double major in Computer Science and Math, Bachelor's degree Double major in Computer Science and Math at University of Maryland
University of California, Los Angeles