Hi, I'm Tyler Flar.
I'm finishing my CS master's at UC San Diego in March 2027 and looking for a software engineering job in San Diego or remote. In summer 2026 I was a technical product manager intern at Brightree, where I built a docs-as-code pipeline for its API guides and analyzed 553M production API requests. I've also interned at Leidos and Cubic. At UCSD I'm building navigation software for a robotic endoscope in the Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab, and before that I led drone wildlife-tracking projects at Engineers for Exploration. On the side I maintain Jackdaw, an open-source Balatro simulator for reinforcement learning.
Outside of work
- Pickleball
- Cooking
- Gym
- Climbing
- Reading
- Drawing
- 3D modeling
- Video games
Education
M.S. in Computer Science
UC San Diego
Relevant coursework: Advanced Computer Vision · Statistical Natural Language Processing · Probabilistic Reasoning and Learning · Algorithm Design and Analysis · Parallel Computation
B.S. in Computer Science
UC San Diego
GPA: 3.8
Skills
Languages
- Python
- C/C++
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- SQL
- Rust
- C#
- Java
- MATLAB
- Bash
Machine Learning
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face Transformers
- scikit-learn
- XGBoost
- Stable-Baselines3
- NumPy
- pandas
- SciPy
LLM Agents
- MCP servers
- RAG (LangChain, FAISS, Qdrant)
- LangGraph
- Claude Code
- Codex
Robotics
- ROS
- Unity
- OpenCV
- Gymnasium
- BLE angle-of-arrival
Web
- React
- Node.js
- Next.js
- Express
- FastAPI
- Tailwind CSS
- Vite/Vitest
- WebAssembly
Databases
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- SQLite
- SQLAlchemy
- Neo4j
Cloud & DevOps
- AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Terraform
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- OpenTelemetry
Systems & Tools
- Linux
- Git
- pytest
- Playwright
- CUDA
- MPI
- OpenMP
- Protobuf
Experience
Student Researcher
AquaMesh
La Jolla, CA
- Helping AquaMesh and the Scripps COOL Lab get AquaSpectra, an in-water optical water-quality sensor, ready for research use by working on its software, calibration and tuning.
Student Researcher
UC San Diego Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab
La Jolla, CA · Hybrid
- Working on autonomous navigation for a robotic endoscope inside the kidney, using a graph of the kidney from the pre-op CT and depth from the camera to decide where to go next.
Projects:Endoscopic Navigation
Technical Product Manager Intern
Brightree
San Diego, CA · Hybrid
- Built the docs-as-code pipeline for Brightree's 27 customer-facing API guides, then analyzed 553M production API requests for a usage report and a SOAP deprecation plan.
Project Lead
Engineers for Exploration
La Jolla, CA · Hybrid
- Led two wildlife-tracking projects, mentored student teams building low-cost animal-monitoring systems (5–15 students at a time, 20+ in all) and presented the work at campus poster sessions and symposiums.
Projects:Radio Telemetry Tracker
Chief Engineer Intern
Leidos
Remote
- Led a DOJ program's monitoring overhaul, from tool evaluation and a white paper to probes and ServiceNow alerts, cutting outage detection from hours to real time and saving $120K a year by showing how outages happened.
Tutor and Teaching Assistant
UC San Diego, CSE Department
La Jolla, CA
- Tutored algorithms (CSE 101), theory of computation (CSE 105) and discrete math (CSE 21) for four terms, then was a TA for computer architecture (CSE 142L), with positive reviews every term.
Systems Engineering Intern
Cubic Transportation Systems
San Diego, CA · Hybrid
- Built a Python and DOORS DXL tool that joins requirements with TestRail results in a live traceability matrix, cutting about a month of manual checking to 30 minutes.
Publications
CHASER: Robust Human Following on a Legged Robot Using Vision and Bluetooth
2026 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) · Genova, Italy
Contribution: the Bluetooth angle-of-arrival module, which turns BLE readings from a Silicon Labs antenna array into a heading back to the operator when the camera loses them.
Links:Paper · Project write-up
Projects
Mar 2026 – Present
Jackdaw
A copy of the game Balatro for reinforcement learning, checked move by move against the real game, and a hosted leaderboard for the agents trained on it.
Mar 2026 – Oct 2026
Tasque
A self-hosted platform that ran AI agents as scheduled jobs, which I built by directing coding agents to find out what they can and can't build.
Apr 2026 – Jun 2026
Active Perception for Geolocation
An AI agent that plays GeoGuessr by choosing where to look next in live Street View.
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
Parallel Computing
Making matrix multiply fast on one CPU core and on a GPU, then spreading a wave simulation across hundreds of cores.