Lucy Gao
Co-Founder at TabbyML
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucy Gao is a co-founder and seasoned product-engineering lead with 11 years of experience building AI-powered consumer and developer tools from idea to launch. Based in Sunnyvale, she leads TabbyML, focusing on open-source LLM infrastructure and developer tooling after a year as an EIR investing in tech infra and SaaS. Previously she founded TikTok’s US AI/AR Creation team as a lead PM, scaling the team rapidly and shipping intuitive smart camera experiences. Her engineering roots include image understanding at Google AI and anomaly detection at Microsoft, and she contributed early work to TensorFlow during a Google Brain internship. Lucy blends deep technical credibility with product instincts and investor-level pattern recognition, making her adept at spotting scalable ML product opportunities. Her background in math and CS from Harvey Mudd underpins a pragmatic, research-informed approach to building ML-first developer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Chelmsford High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (27)
ide10
codegen10
code-generation10
ai10
developer-tools10
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
neural-network7
tensorflow7
recommender-system7
copilot7
similarity-search6
search-engine6
nearest-neighbor-search5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TabbyML/pochi-docs
Jul 2025 - Aug 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 13 days
Sma1lboy/pochi-docs
Jul 2025 - Jul 2025
Contributions:13 PRs, 9 pushes, 6 branches in 2 days
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