Joseph Besgen
Co-Founder at Paper Instruments
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Besgen is a Co-Founder and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable systems and labor-market products from San Francisco. He combines startup founding experience—currently training models at The LLM Data Company and previously building light industrial labor solutions at Traba—with deep backend engineering chops gained at Facebook/Instagram and on the open-source Magma project. His contributions to Magma focused on modularizing configuration management and adding core metrics to magmad, showing an emphasis on operational robustness and low-memory, maintainable architectures. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate with hands-on experience across ML, bioinformatics, aerospace, and hardware-adjacent product teams, he blends interdisciplinary technical curiosity with product-first execution. Comfortable moving between code, product, and fundraising environments (Y Combinator alumnus), he brings a founder’s pragmatism to shipping reliable infrastructure and ML-enabled products.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering Minor, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering Minor at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, DavisWestview High SchoolX25, X25 at Y Combinator
Github Skills (17)
python10
configuration-management10
go10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
magma10
networking9
net9
grpc9
network9
bazel7
4g5
5g5
dockers4
docker4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
magma/magma
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Platform for building access networks and modular network services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the back-end components of the Magma platform, particularly within the context of its configuration and service management aspects. Their work involved refactoring and updating the codebase related to loading and managing configurations, notably through the removal of a global protobuf registry to improve modularity and reduce memory usage. The user also integrated metrics collection functionality into the core Magmad service, and addressed issues related to configuration loading and service registration, demonstrating their involvement in the platform's internal architecture and operational aspects.
network-servicenetworksmobile3gpppython
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