Jun Yu Tan
Founding Engineer @ Tusk 📍 San Francisco
I am Jun Yu, an AI engineer building autonomous software engineering agents.
I’m passionate about building impactful AI experiences to ultimately help make our world more efficient and creative, having worked on scalable ML systems and making LLM-enabled products more reliable and steerable. Also broadly interested LLMs and the intersection of AI and human-computer interaction.
Previously, I was a machine learning engineer at Saleswhale (acquired by 6sense) building conversational AI to power automated lead conversion in sales and marketing teams. I also delivered data science and machine learning projects at Autodesk and Micron. During my time at Micron, I conducted research on novelty detection for predictive maintenance of manufacturing equipment using acoustic IoT systems.
I graduated from the National University of Singapore with a B.Sc. in Data Science & Analytics. Since August 2023, I’m also pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.
News
| Jun 03, 2025 | Gave a talk at AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 about designing AI to scale human thought and capabilities. |
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| Jan 08, 2025 | Started a part-time research role at Design Intelligence Lab in Georgia Tech, working on Social Agent Mediatied Interactions (SAMI). |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Started a new role at Tusk in San Francisco. |
| May 04, 2024 | Revamped this blog with a more polished theme. |
| Oct 11, 2023 | Gave a talk at Google Developer Space about techniques to enhance reliability of LLMs in production. |
Latest posts
| Dec 05, 2025 | The Crystallization of Transformer Architectures (2017-2025) |
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| Nov 20, 2025 | Building a Fast BPE Tokenizer from Scratch |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Systematic Pessimism |