Zheng Tan
AI Framework Engineer at Modular
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZheng Tan is an AI framework engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of hands-on experience building production ML systems, developer tooling, and full-stack products. Currently at Modular, he previously founded Cellulose to accelerate model inference debugging and optimization, and co-founded YC-backed Lexer, demonstrating a pattern of turning infrastructure needs into startups. His background includes accelerating perception models at Cruise and building vehicle HRI/OS at drive.ai, giving him deep expertise at the intersection of ML, systems, and real-world robotics. An early-stage engineer at Hologram and former YC founder, he blends product intuition with low-level engineering, from C++ and embedded work to scalable cloud services. He occasionally dabbles in finance and angel investing, and maintains a public technical presence through GitHub, Medium, and Stack Overflow. Collected experiences across startups and autonomous vehicle stacks make him adept at diagnosing and optimizing ML inference challenges that often hide in production.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of MichiganAssociate of Science (A.S.) Computer Engineering, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Engineering at Green River CollegeHigh School Diploma Pure Science track, High School Diploma Pure Science track at SMK Damansara Jaya
English, Chinese, Malay, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tzhenghao/MagicSnippets
Oct 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
placethrowawaypythonpython3
HologramEducation/hologram-go
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:63 commits, 22 pushes, 1 tag in 7 months
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