Laith Altarabishi
Software engineer | MS ECE @ UT Austin | ML systems and infrastructure
Currently:
- α.Software Engineer at Capital One (Microservices, AI and Cloud Infra)
- β.Founder of From Scratch Podcast
- γ.Working on an interesting project with friends
Previously:
- •Software Engineer Intern at Aristocrat (Agentic Systems & AI Infrastructure)
- •Software Engineer Intern at Capital One (Enterprise ML tooling & Kubeflow)
- •Research Assistant at UT Austin Nuclear and Applied Robotics Group
- •Software Engineer Intern at Cisco
•Education: BS & MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin (2020-2025)
•Based in Austin, TX
Projects:
- •TinyRL-Tetris - From-scratch RL training system with custom CUDA kernels
- •RLox - Lox interpreters in Rust (tree-walk & bytecode VM)
- •WIP... need to update
•Blog
•From Scratch Podcast - Technical conversations with engineers and researchers. Guests include Matt Klein (Envoy), Gleb Zarin (Humanoid), and Areg Melik-Adamyan (Modular)
•Contact: laithaustin[at]utexas[dot]edu