# Tom Elizaga

> Software Engineer at CodeRabbit

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

Contact details:
tom.elizaga@gmail.com

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ CodeRabbit
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Outlier
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
▪	Iteratively refined and executed multi-step workflows to guide large language model (LLM) outputs, constructing initial prompts, designing evaluation rubrics, and refining model responses across code, instructions, and final text solutions
▪	Worked remotely with a distributed team to develop and enhance cutting-edge generative AI solutions, utilizing a diverse tech stack (Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, SQL)
▪	Leveraged Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to significantly enhance output quality and consistency, aligning AI responses with business objectives and project-specific guidelines
▪	Implemented error recovery strategies for model-generated code, enhancing data analysis reliability and consistency

### Founding Engineer @ TLDRMailer
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
▪	Scaled a personalized newsletter generator to 200+ users with an 80% retention rate in the first month by building a robust content delivery pipeline using TypeScript, Node.js, GPT, and Bing API, aligned with key business strategies.
▪	Enhanced content accuracy and reliability by implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and architecting a suite of RESTful API endpoints for administrative tasks, newsletter creation, and email handling
▪	Designed and deployed a comprehensive React frontend, integrating Auth0 for authentication, routing, and dashboard UI with Material-UI and Emotion for styling, resulting in a seamless user experience and high user satisfaction
▪	Utilized Prisma ORM for robust database interactions, implementing complex SQL queries and mutations that integrate seamlessly with a PostgreSQL database, improving system performance and achieving critical KPIs.

### Software Engineer @ Adobe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States
▪	Migrated Adobe Admin Console from AngularJS to React and ES6, achieving a 25% faster load time and 30% reduction in regression bugs, enhancing performance and reliability for enterprise clients
▪	Engineered and standardized a library of shared UI components, services, and custom hooks, significantly improving the development process and ensuring UI consistency across the Adobe Business Platform
▪	Resolved critical production bugs and implemented improvements using JIRA and CI/CD processes, addressing issues such as state management with Redux and MobX to ensure consistent UI updates
▪	Transitioned the testing framework from Jasmine to Jest and Enzyme, maintaining high code quality and facilitating a streamlined development workflow

### System Administrator @ Berkeley Wireless Research Center
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States
▪	Supported IT operations for 180+ researchers, including virtual machine setup, resource allocation, and user support using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Active Directory.
▪	Led the migration of the website from Drupal to WordPress, resulting in a 50% reduction in maintenance time.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Data Science and Cognitive Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tom-elizaga
- Website: https://github.com/helizaga

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Last updated: 2026-04-05