AI Inference Infrastructure for Developers
Team
Eli Mernit, John Marshall
Role
Software Engineer, UI
Duration
Mar - Jun 2025
Overview
During the spring of 2025, I worked at Beam (YC W22) as a contract UI Engineer working for a helping them with their product UI as well as their marketing site UI. During my time there, I built out UI components for their platform, marketing site, and design system. I also was the sole-contributor to features such as the customer blog. My time at Beam involved building out UI that are precise to the design, optimized, and fast. I worked closely with engineers and learned a lot about contribution and code organization best practices, which I now carry with me.
Beam's main dashboard provides developers with a comprehensive overview of their AI app deployments. The interface displays key metrics about the usage of AI inference including CPU utilization, memory usage, and GPU memory. As a UI engineer, I was responsible for creating the UI for the dashboard to be exact to the Figma design.
I worked on refining the appearance for various UI such as the logs, banners, breadcrumbs, navigation bars, card components,and footers. This involved working with the existing design system repository hosted on Storybook.
I also created new UI components such as a dynamic Template Card for a new template experience by Beam.
I helped in the migration of the existing UI to a new layout, which involved a move from a previous sidebar layout to a new layout that used a horizontal top navbar, which required a styling of various pages such as the Settings page.
I was the sole-contributor to features on the homepage such as the customer blog, which includes a new expandable navigation bar, a new customer blog directory page, and a new customer blog template page that pulls content from Sanity CMS.
