Thorin Tabor

Jacobs Center for Health Innovation

Sep 2026 – Present  ·  La Jolla, CA

Staff Software Engineer, AI & Digital Health

• Building cloud-native applications that bring applied AI and intelligent automation into production across UC San Diego Health.
• Partnering with data science and automation teams to operationalize models and integrate across EHR platforms, cloud services and enterprise data environments.

University of California, San Diego

Nov 2016 – Jun 2026  ·  La Jolla, CA

Staff Software Engineer

• Principal architect and lead engineer for the GenePattern AI and Notebook ecosystem at UC San Diego.
• Architected and deployed GenePattern Copilot, a RAG-based agentic AI assistant for GenePattern and bioinformatics research. Built the initial system using LangChain and LangGraph, then migrated to Pydantic AI for its superior structured output handling and data validation. Integrated Logfire for real-time observability and evaluation of agent trajectories.
• Engineered an MCP server wrapping the GenePattern REST API, enabling Copilot to agentically launch jobs, retrieve results and explore analyses on the user's behalf.
• Designed and built the GenePattern Module Toolkit, a multi-agent pipeline that automates wrapping and deploying bioinformatics tools as GenePattern modules. Uses a hierarchical agent architecture with a supervisor-managed escalation loop across researcher, planner and six artifact-specific agents. Increased GenePattern module production by ~500%.
• Fine-tuned LoRAs on LLM-generated, hand-curated synthetic training data at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Validated model performance through rigorous LLM evaluation.
• Led containerization and cloud orchestration via Docker and AWS. Contributed to the development of MSigDB and IGV. Continued architectural leadership of g2nb and GenePattern Notebook throughout.

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Cambridge, MA

SkyPilot

Apr 2025 – Present  ·  Remote

Founder & Principal Engineer

• Solo-founded, built and launched a social media scheduling and analytics SaaS for Bluesky and Threads, selected for the Google Startups Program. Engineered the full stack in Python and Django with Celery and RabbitMQ handling distributed task execution across multiple worker nodes.
• Built an MCP server wrapping the SkyPilot API, enabling AI agents to schedule posts, manage queues, upload media and retrieve analytics programmatically. Integrated LLM inference for post inspiration and content automation, and ML-based analytics for hashtag performance, engagement trends, optimal post timing and audience growth projections. Profitable every month since launch.

Tab Creations

Jul 2013 – Present  ·  Remote

Founder and Creative Director

• Co-founded an independent tabletop roleplaying game publisher, personally designing and writing four complete games and over 100 published products. Managed the full production pipeline — budgeting, crowdfunding, freelance artists, editors and graphic designers — across 17 successful campaigns raising $135k total.
• Shadows Over Sol, the company's flagship game, has been licensed for a Portuguese edition and an audio drama produced by GMB Japan. Also designed and built the company website and Foundry VTT integration.

Lime Brokerage LLC

May 2007 – Oct 2010  ·  Waltham, MA

Software Engineer

Contributed to the trading portal at a high-frequency brokerage platform that processed over 1 billion orders in a single day during the 2008 financial crisis, roughly 9% of total US equity volume that day. Engineered performance optimizations deep in the JSF request lifecycle to maximize throughput with update rates of up to 50 times per second. Took primary ownership of the order book component following a migration to Adobe Air.