Zachary Golan-Strieb has a diverse work experience in the field of software engineering and research. Zachary is currently working as a Software Engineer at Duolingo since August 2021. Prior to that, they worked as a Secure Machine Learning Researcher and Student Instructor at UC Berkeley College of Engineering from August 2019 to June 2021. During their time at UC Berkeley, they focused on defending against adversarial examples for traffic sign classification and taught electrical engineering fundamentals through labs and tutoring sessions.
Zachary also worked as a Computer Vision Research Intern at SRI International from May 2020 to August 2020. In this role, they developed unsupervised methods for detecting improvised explosive devices and built confidence-calibrated perception modules.
Zachary had a previous internship as a Software Engineering Intern at Duolingo in the summer of 2019. During this internship, they led the development of frontend and backend tools for Duolingo's internal analytics platform.
Additionally, Zachary has experience as a Data Science Intern at Quantifind in 2018, where they worked on predictive modeling and data extraction from third-party sites. Zachary also served as an Academic Student Employee at UC Berkeley College of Engineering in 2018, teaching electrical engineering fundamentals and leading tutoring sessions.
Earlier in their career, they worked as an Astrophysics Researcher at Yale University in 2016 and as a Technical Intern at TikGames in 2014.
Overall, Zachary Golan-Strieb has a strong background in software engineering, research, and teaching, with experience in machine learning, computer vision, data science, and astrophysics.
Zachary Golan-Strieb pursued their education in the field of Computer Science. From 2017 to 2020, they attended the University of California, Berkeley, where they obtained their Bachelor's degree. Continuing their academic journey, they then enrolled at the same university for their Master of Engineering - MEng degree in Computer Science, which they completed from 2020 to 2021.