Shiman Guo
Founding Engineer at Suger (YC W23)
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolShiman Guo is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade NLP systems, currently at Safari AI after co-founding Suger (YC W23). He combines a research background in computational linguistics (MA, Brandeis) with hands-on engineering at Microsoft, Alibaba, and Machine Zone to deliver high-performance language tooling—from GEC models to tokenization and information extraction. Known for writing reader-oriented, efficient code and improving programming workflows, he favors pragmatic solutions that bridge research and product. Based in Coquitlam, Canada, he brings deep expertise in multilingual text processing and a proven track record of shipping applied NLP in both startup and large-company contexts.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Korean Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Korean Studies at Shandong UniversityMaster of Arts (MA), Computational Linguistics, Master of Arts (MA), Computational Linguistics at Brandeis University
English, Chinese, Korean
Stackoverflow
26reputation
645reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (46)
stanford-nlp10
coreference10
segmentation10
parsing10
corenlp10
named-entity-recognition9
java9
natural-language-processing9
sentiment-analysis9
nlp9
sublime-text8
pep7
syntax-highlighting7
pycharm6
oauth6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shiman/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 7 months
shiman/error_example
Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years
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