SRUJAN YAMALI

SOFTWARE AND RESEARCH

2026

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A simulated fly in an open arena. It keeps to the wall the way real flies do, and the share of time it spends in the middle is the number the Drosophila study was built on.

B.S. Computer Science, UC Berkeley

About Srujan Yamali

I study computer science at UC Berkeley, and the work splits about evenly between industry software and research. Right now I do contract engineering for SpaceX through a subcontractor, after building LLM tooling at Visa and developer tooling at Mercor.

In the Shao lab at the University of Delaware I wrote the computer vision behind a high-throughput Drosophila courtship assay so the behaviour did not have to be scored by eye, and at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia I worked on RedCarpet, which finds where bacterial genomes have taken DNA from each other.

Experience

2026: Sentient OS (YC F26), Software Development Intern
2026: SpaceX, Contract Engineer (via subcontractor)
2026: Visa, Software Engineer Intern
2025–26: Mercor, Software Engineer
2024–25: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Data Science Intern
2023–24: Cornell University, Machine Learning Engineer Intern
2023: University of Delaware, Software Development Intern

Research

Measuring behaviour in Drosophila, presented at IBANGS and HHMI Janelia in 2024
Finding recombination in bacterial genomes, presented at ISSSI in Perth in 2024

Ventures

[Stryda](https://www.stryda.ai), an AI commissioner for golf
[Sylor](https://sylor.us), AI agents that stress-test decisions
[Tipsy](https://tipsyy.vercel.app), a drink tracker for iPhone

Open source

[FlyFlirt](https://github.com/Srujyama/FlyFlirt)
[RedCarpet](https://github.com/microbialARC/Redcarpet)
[M&A Toolkit](https://github.com/Srujyama/mna-toolkit)
[Stryier](https://github.com/Srujyama/Stryier)
[Tap to Tip](https://github.com/Srujyama/Fintech-Tipping)

#berkeley #software #research #drosophila #genomics