# Zak Golding

> GenAI Software Engineer

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

software hero.

## Work Experience
### Sr. AI Software Engineer @ Prosper Marketplace
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Wiltshire Engineering
Jan 2022 – Present | Oakland, California, United States
Building various full stack software solutions for clients. Most recently built an automated bi-directional chatbot system for micro businesses (plumbers, hair dressers, personal trainers, etc.), fully self serve. Bi-directional in that the microbusiness customers can talk to the bot to query the microbusiness (for appointments, opening times, what kind of product do they sell, etc.) just as you would expect from a traditional bot but also the microbusiness owner can talk with the bot to train it in real time as their business changes ("I'm away next week, I won't be able to take appointments").

Technologies: OpenAI, GPT-3, Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace, Prompt Engineering, Vercel, React, Next.js, Svelte, Serverless, PlanetScale, Auth0, EC2, Blockchain, GraphQL, Google Colab, Jupyter, Docker, Git, Linear (similar to JIRA)

### CEO, Software Engineer @ Telos.ai
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States
Founded and led a team of 4 at a UC Berkeley funded startup for massive scale Entity-Component-System cloud Operating System for enterprise simulation and knowledge management. An OS for creating digital mirror objects of everything in an enterprise: everything from IoT objects, to oil rigs, to PDFs. Capable of interaction with existing UI paradigms (web/mobile) and next gen AR/VR 3D. Built with the principles of next gen massive online game platforms (like Star Citizen) but used for simluating enterprise objects instead of game objects. Similar to Palantir's Foundry platform which we didn't know at the time (their "ontology" analogy is their version of our "teleology" analogy! ha!) Inspired by Minority Report's interface that facilitates near instant compilation, visualization, and understanding of massive amounts of disparate information.

Technologies: AWS: Lambda, Semantic Search (Elastic+LLMs), Neptune Graph DB, DynamoDB, PyTorch, Vercel, React, Next.js, Unity, Three.js, MQTT, IoT, Web Socket, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, REST

### Instructor & Software Engineer @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States
Taught JavaScript to people :) Participated in several hackathons with coworkers and students alike as well as built several small open source projects.

### Software Engineer @ Offworld Inc
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Cupertino, California, United States
Started this small software company when I was around 13/14. I built gaming software and plugins for  paid clients, personal use, and open source for the general community. Sold the assets and cross-play server hosting technology to a server hosting company in Brazil that was big into this space. Fun stuff.

Technologies: Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Lua, C, Cloud, Travis CI, Jenkins CI, Networking


## Education
### University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Mathematics in Physics, Computer Science, English
Stanford Online High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Home/Self Educated


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23