# Zachary Birenbaum

> Software Engineer (Weave)

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

Experience with Software Development, Machine Learning, Systems Programming and Maintaining + Contributing to Open Source.  Skilled in Rust, Typescript, Javascript, Python, C, C++, Lua and Java.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ CoreWeave
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Formerly Weights and Biases (pre-acquisition) Building Weave — A toolkit for developing Generative AI applications

### Software Engineer @ Trace Machina
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developing Nativelink - a high performance build cache and remote executor written in Rust

### Founding Engineer @ Sesame Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Burlingame, California, United States
Full-Stack Engineer for Sesame Labs, a marketing and user engagement startup

### Software Engineer @ Tender Finance
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Blockchain and API developer

### Machine Learning Research Assistant @ Colgate University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Hamilton, New York, United States
Developed, trained and evaluated a new convolutional neural network optimized for learning to recognize and classify individual seals in open, self-expanding datasets on limited inputs in Python using Tensorflow and OpenCV.

First author of corresponding research paper on process and methodology.
Publication in Ecology and Evolution journal available at 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.8851

### Research Assistant @ Purdue University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Worked with the Purdue team alongside NASA on a multi-university DARPA funded research initiative for detecting and preventing malicious messages sent to secure institutions or high-profile individuals via unconventional methods like LinkedIn.

### Computer Science and Finance Intern @ T-Mobile
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bellevue, WA, United States

### Big Data Analysis and Machine Learning Intern @ Verizon Wireless
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Basking Ridge New Jersey


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Colgate University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Purdue University

### High School Diploma
Charlotte Country Day School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11