Taj Shaik

Taj Shaik is a software engineer currently working at RunLLM since July 2024. Previously, Taj held various roles at Salesforce from January 2021 to June 2024, including Member of Technical Staff focused on Infrastructure Cloud and Database as a Service, and Associate Member of Technical Staff. Taj also contributed as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Berkeley RISE Lab, working on serverless computing and databases from January 2020 to January 2021. Additional experience includes teaching roles as an Undergraduate Student Instructor and Course Reader at UC Berkeley, multiple software engineering internships at companies such as Zendesk, Tesla, and Salesforce, and early contributions as a curriculum developer and academic intern in data science at UC Berkeley. Taj earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.