# Andrew Taber

> Research Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewtaber

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Toyota Research Institute
Jan 2024 – Present | Los Altos, California, United States

### Staff Research Software Engineer @ Equilibrium Energy
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
I built systems for automated energy market participation, competitor analysis, long- and short-term battery simulations, and production cost modeling.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Intact Solutions, LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
I was principal investigator (PI) on a $1.25M DARPA-funded research program on Plug-and-Play engineering simulation, and also contributed to other research efforts like DARPA's Transformative Design (TRADES) program, our NIST-funded effort in qualification of additively-manufactured parts, and our collaborations with other research institutions such as NASA and the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).

### Developer-In-Residence @ Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Edge Team
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
I learned React and shipped a React Native app called Officer Hours to both iOS and Android in 2 months. The app connected VCs with potential entrepreneurs for informal chats.

### Software Developer @ Verba Software
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
Physical logistics, building user-focused software products, and helping scale an engineering team from 2 to 7 people.

### Software Developer @ Rackspace
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
I worked on the Airbrake product, an error monitoring system.

### Student Researcher @ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Molecular Foundry, Theory Group
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Berkeley, CA
· Worked in the lab of Dr. Jeffrey Neaton under the supervision of Dr. P. James Schuck
        · Developed computational tools in Python to model and visualize nanoscale phenomena
        · Communicated computational issues with experimentalist audience
        · Maintained and added to software suite with approximately 10,000 lines of code
        · Worked with very little supervision and with a suite that has sparse documentation
        · Learned to react quickly and multitask in a fast-paced research environment on a hot topic
        · Gained familiarity with Unix environment, Subversion and parallel implementation on superclusters
        · Presented results to laboratory group meetings with postdocs and professors

### Intern @ Earthmine inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Berkeley, CA
- Worked under Ph.D.'s in a research setting to improve data pipeline
- Formulated hypotheses on how to improve data quality for image segmentation
- Implemented changes to key production algorithms by comparing open-source libraries


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Davis

### Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley

### Mission San Jose High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-taber-9481a97
- GitHub: http://www.github.com/Godel91

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Last updated: 2026-03-29