About

Colored-pencil illustration of Tamir Yirga

I’m Tamir, a software engineer based in Seattle. This is where I write about the software I’m building.

My work started with web applications and e-commerce platforms, then moved toward query execution, data pipelines, and distributed storage. More recently I’ve been writing Rust and working on inference engines.

I’m pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Northeastern, with graduation expected in December 2026. I work as a research assistant exploring topics around LLM systems and behaviors, and as a teaching assistant guiding students through scalable distributed systems, cloud computing, and computer vision.

You can find my code on GitHub, or reach me by email.

Background

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Jan–May 2026

LakeSail

Software Engineer Intern

Worked on a Rust-native, Spark-compatible query engine: Spark TIME support across the query stack and Arrow-native execution for Python UDFs and UDTFs.

Jul–Sep 2025

Canaria

Software Engineer Intern

Built a FastAPI text-to-SQL service over a dataset of more than 700 million records, with materialized views for spatial and time-series queries.

May 2022–Aug 2024

Scandiweb

Full Stack Engineer

Worked across eight e-commerce platforms, refactoring legacy services and improving GraphQL endpoints with Redis caching.

Apr 2021–May 2022

Endubis Labs

Full Stack Engineer

Built a non-custodial wallet used by more than 7,000 people, with WASM cryptography and batched UTXO filtering for wallet synchronization.

Education & credentials

Northeastern University · MS Computer Science, expected December 2026 · GPA 4.0 / 4.0.