Santiago Medina
Member of Technical Staff at xAI.
Working on AI, web systems, and infrastructure.
Projects
XDK
The official X Developer Kit — an SDK generator for the X API.
xurl
A command-line tool for making authenticated requests to the X API.
An AI-powered CLI tool that generates custom project boilerplate code based on your project description.
ScriptifAI
A tool that allows you to add insanely accurate subtitles directly to your video, completely in-browser using WebGPU and ffmpeg.wasm.
Orca Rust Framework
A fast, memory safe, LLM Orchestration Framework for easily writing LLM-based applications in Rust.
Implemented the Moondream computer-vision model in Rust using Candle, a Rust deep learning framework.
Scrippt
An AI-powered platform for job applicants, leveraging AI to write accurate responses to application questions.
Experience
Member of Technical Staff
Feb 2025 - PresentxAI · Bay Area, CA
Building Grok
Software Engineer
Aug 2024 - PresentX Corp · Bay Area, CA
Building the global town square
Software Engineer
Jul 2023 - Aug 2024Microsoft · Redmond, WA
Infrastructure team for Partner Center
Instructional Aide – Web Systems
Aug 2022 - Apr 2023University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI
Taught 1000+ students web development
VP of Projects
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023VOID Tech · Ann Arbor, MI
Managed 30+ member organization
Writing
Submerging with Orca: The Deep Waters of Rust's Dynamic Dispatch
October 2023My experience using dynamic dispatch while building Orca.
Goodbye Python, Hello Rust: Building a RAG CLI Application with Orca
November 2023A tutorial on how to build a CLI application using Rust and Orca.
Typescript and React Workshop
October 2022Build a web application using TypeScript and React.
React Native Workshop
October 2022Build a mobile application using React Native.
Node Backend Workshop
October 2022Build a backend for a web application using Node.js.
Blockchain Reading List
December 2022A list of resources to learn about blockchain.