# Tenzin Low

> Yet Another Bay Area SWE

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tenzinlow

Increasing entropy in the Bay Area. I like tackling challenging problems and engineering efficient and maintainable solutions. Quick on the uptake, clear with communication.

Avid videogamer and a pianist with a two-song repertoire.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Augment Code
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
"Automating all parts of the software development lifecycle".

- Full-stack. VSCode, IntelliJ, shared frontend platform, k8s + Bazel backend. Typescript, Python, Kotlin, Go, Rust, SQL, Starlark (agent helps a lot with learning new languages).
- Learning more than I intended to about frontend ecosystems and their (poor) interactions with Bazel.
- Alternating between increasing and decreasing entropy.

### Codepoint Fellow @ Sutter Hill Ventures
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Code monkey on different projects and teams. Buzz words include: big data, image processing, prompt engineering, *jazz hands* chain of thought, and a *lot* of SQLite.

Rotations: SHV Internal, Reve AI, Augment Code.

### Software Engineering Intern @ SpaceX
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Redmond, Washington, United States
• Direct-to-Cell flight software control plane.

### Forward Deployed Software Engineering Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Developed data pipelines to process, clean, and enrich complex health-related data at scale for the U.S. government.
• Created fast and user-friendly workflows enabling analysts to spend more time asking the questions that matter.

### Controls Team Lead @ Advanced Robotics at the University of Washington
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Recruitment, onboarding, training, and support of new controls software members.
Sprint planning and issue triage.
Led sub-team of 8 people.

### Controls Team Developer @ Advanced Robotics at the University of Washington
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
•	Maintainer and developer of Taproot, an open-source library utilizing lbuild code generation to greatly accelerate controls development for users of DJI development boards in C++.
•	Using command-based programming inside a cooperative scheduler to control four robot types.
•	Developing in Docker container.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Genie – a Terex brand
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States
- Worked on the SL1K controls system at Genie. We lift people up... literally (*ba-dum tss*)
- 40 hours/week for 26 weeks alongside full-time software engineers on the SL1K controls system to deliver new features to customers, fix bugs, and verify functionality in a two-week scrum format.

Some tasks that I really enjoyed:
- Investigated and resolved field issue regarding faulty "low outrigger pressure" faults stemming from ADC reading noise.
- Designed Genie HAL adapter layer file structure for new PCON to allow application code reuse. Implemented GPIO pin configuration and board definitions for new PCON.
- Implemented and designed storage, tracking, and reporting of amp hours delivered by battery.

### Software Development Intern @ AI THINKTANK
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
-Worked on Unity visualization tool from the ground up that poses human avatar from 3D joint position data using C#.
-Significantly improved animation quality through Unity's Quaternion and Vector3 APIs.
-Developed and documented API definitions for interfacing between Unity player and host operating system (Android or iOS)

### FaceMe @ DubHacks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- Developed an accessibility tool for video calls using the OpenCV libraries facial detection API and Google Cloud's speech to text API to help the less technologically adept keep their face in-frame during voice calls.

- "Best use of Google Cloud APIs" award (1st)
- "Best First Time Hack" award
- "Google Cloud COVID-19 Hackathon Fund" award


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Washington

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Washington


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tenzinlow

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Last updated: 2026-04-10