Tim Bauman
Software & ML Engineer at Surge AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Bauman is a Software and ML Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems and applied ML for high-impact production problems. Currently at Surge AI, he owns data quality tooling and fine-tunes LLMs for helpfulness, harmlessness, and honesty, drawing on research that doubled model robustness at Redwood Research (NeurIPS 2022). His background spans building traffic infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of users at Facebook, automating ocean-shipment routing at Flexport, and scaling COVID testing lab processes at Curative—demonstrating a rare mix of systems engineering, optimization, and ML research. Tim excels at turning complex logistical problems into automated, measurable workflows and mentors teams to ship resilient services. Less obvious: he combines hands-on PyTorch and tooling work with product-facing automation that directly reduces operational toil and accelerates onboarding.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Central Catholic High SchoolA.B. Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Certificate in Applications of Computing, A.B. Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Certificate in Applications of Computing at Princeton University
Github Skills (17)
imitation-learning10
gymnasium10
algorithms9
pytorch9
llm8
ai6
python6
communication-protocol5
qt4
machine-learning4
p2p3
messenger3
blowfish1
hmac1
openssl1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
timbauman/timbauman.github.io
Oct 2021 - Sep 2025
Contributions:15 PRs, 47 pushes in 3 years 11 months
timbauman/evals
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Evals is a framework for evaluating OpenAI models and an open-source registry of benchmarks.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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