Tom Dimiduk
Founder And CEO at Sift Technologies
Burlingame, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Dimiduk is a Staff Software Engineer and founder with 15 years of experience building scientific, data-analysis, embedded, and full-stack systems using Python, C++, C and Haskell. He has led architecture and releases for multidisciplinary teams, translating domain expert requirements into production software from holographic microscopy tools to data-intensive web apps and LLM-driven voice coaches. Tom’s background spans academia (PhD in Physics from Harvard) and industry (Tesla, startup CTO), giving him deep expertise in probabilistic inference, large-scale data pipelines, and embedded microcontroller work. He runs and maintains production Linux/nginx/Postgres stacks, writes scrapers and parsers, and has a proven knack for turning complex experimental methods into user-facing, maintainable code. Based in Burlingame, CA, he blends research-grade algorithm design with pragmatic engineering and product instincts, often surfacing subtle domain constraints into robust system designs.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Engineering Physics at Cornell University
Github Skills (92)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tdimiduk/groupeng
Jun 2011 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 review, 55 commits, 4 PRs in 10 years 5 months
tdimiduk/holopy
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 118 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 3 months
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