Hi! My name is Nathan Barry.
Outside of school and work, I enjoy reading, ballroom dancing, climbing, pickleball, badminton, hiking, playing the guitar, and photography!
For information about me, below are a few things I’ve been doing.
| Currently | |
|---|---|
| Aug 2026 - Present | CTO and Co-Founder at Tarski Research (YC F26), working on something new! |
| Previously | |
|---|---|
| May 2026 - Aug 2026 | A Research Engineer at Zed, working on post-training code autocomplete models (and other stuff) |
| May 2026 | Finished my Master’s of Science in CS @ UT Austin |
| Aug 2025 - May 2026 | A Graduate Researcher at UT Austin, working on inference optimization for diffusion language models (and other stuff) |
| Feb 2026 | Won both the Neo Prize and the Most Creative Prize at TreeHacks 2026. Built Diffuji, a diffusion-powered instant camera |
| Oct 2025 | Placed for the Play-Do Prize at Cal Hacks 2025. Built Curserve, a low-latency cloud coding agent serving framework |
| May 2025 - Aug 2025 | A Machine Learning Intern at Apple, working on time-series forecasting for predictive autoscaling |
| May 2025 | Finished my Bachelor’s of Science in CS and Math @ UT Austin |
| Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 | A Software Engineer Intern at TerraFirma, working on coverage path planning algorithms for autonomous construction vehicles |
| Feb 2024 - Sep 2024 | An Undergraduate Researcher at UT Austin, working on efficient exact-match search for LLM dataset contamination detection |
| Nov 2021 - Sep 2022 | A Software Engineer at multiple startups, doing Rust and TypeScript full-stack development |
| May 2022 | Participated in the Z fellows program |
For historical reasons (every version of my site has included this), here is a list of some personal feats I’ve done (featuring the impressive and the useless).
| Event | Record |
|---|---|
| Mile | 4:28 |
| 2 Mile | 9:51 |
| 5k | 15:56 |
| Bench Press | 275 lbs |
| Bouldering Grade | V8 |
| Balls Juggled | 4 |
| Bowling Score | 203 (my proudest one!) |
Lastly, check out my super cool and great friends! Alex Kranias, Daniel Kasabov-Nouvion, Dorsa Rohani, Annie Hu, Manal Sultan, Sid Sabhnani, Arpan Dhatt, Nate Williams.