Xin Tan
Senior Software Engineer - AI Agents at CAIS
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolXin Tan is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI agents with a decade of experience spanning startup product engineering, robotics, and academic research. He blends hands-on full-stack and ML engineering—shipping computer vision systems at a startup acquired by Snapchat, building LLM-powered chatbots, and contributing backend and visualization fixes to notable open-source guided policy search code. After two years doing computational neuroscience and computational psychiatry research (MCMC model-fitting, EEG clustering, and RL models of threat perception), he’s returned to production software where he applies rigorous experimental thinking to practical ML systems. Based in New York, he pairs deep technical breadth with a research mindset, often translating novel ideas from papers into deployable prototypes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyAssociate of Arts - AA Psychology, Associate of Arts - AA Psychology at De Anza CollegeMaster of Arts - MA Psychology, Master of Arts - MA Psychology at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (6)
python10
matplotlib10
front-end-development9
visualization8
3d8
visualizations8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cbfinn/gps
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Guided Policy Search
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 8 PRs, 51 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Xin contributed to the project by fixing backend issues related to the matplotlib backend and by improving 3D visualizations using buffered axis limits. They also implemented a feature that allows a new experiment to copy hyperparams and targets from a previous one. Additionally, the user modified the code to display the components of a CostSum and refactored the GUI demos.
policyguided-policy-searchguided
formatechnologies/models
Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
Models and examples built with TensorFlow
Contributions:28 PRs, 160 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 3 months
tensorflow
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