Hi! I’m Atem Aguer. I previously studied Computer Science at Stanford, where I focused on AI and computer systems.
I have broad interests in technology, startups, and AI. In my technical work, I focus on coding agents, RL, and systems for machine learning.
Previously, I led AI engineering at Codegen (an early coding agents startup), built distributed storage infrastructure at DoorDash, and researched NLP and distributed systems at Stanford Future Data Systems with Omar Khattab and Matei Zaharia. I was also an early employee at Alchemy during DeFi summer and a founding engineer at a startup during my gap year after high school.
I was an early contributor to SkyRL-TX, an open-source backend for the Tinker API that unifies language model training and inference for reinforcement learning. I helped ship its first production-ready release.
Outside of work, I play soccer, lift weights, hack on open-source projects, and watch too much TV.