Chase Lambert Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Our 6 person team built and trained two SOTA foundation image models. The second was a custom architecture from the ground up. I contracted here to get up to speed on foundational model training and to help the team in a pinch; I left after we released our V3 model.⚬ Significantly improved the reliability of our training cluster by 90%+. Directly responsible for the continued cluster health and performance. This included introducing metrics and alerting, and addressing various sysadmin issues such as network, disk, GPU, and Slurm failures⚬ Led critical large-scale distributed data processing and gathering initiatives⚬ Optimized off-the-shelf PyTorch models⚬ Built a Ray-backed job system for fine tuning models for users⚬ Conducted model training runs, including VLM fine-tuning and an aesthetic classifier⚬ Resolved scaling issues when Playground first launchedInfra

Remote, Us

Mighty built a faster browser by streaming Chrome from the cloud. I started this company with the CEO.⚬ Built the bare-metal infrastructure from scratch including running our own virtualization⚬ Built our high performance networking stack (custom UDP protocol in C++) for both audio & video⚬ Architected our multi-processing, multi-host communication platform (Typescript, Electron, Node.js)⚬ Created diagrams and documents used extensively throughout the company, many persisting in relevance for years⚬ Built our crash debugging infrastructure⚬ GPU work to reduce latency, Video RAM, and battery usage⚬ GPU work to get crisp fonts and accurate colors⚬ Debugged hundreds of novel complex issues. One of which required an email to Jensen Huang to get a GPU firmware fix.⚬ Sped up Linux Chrome. For example, I fixed a bug where the URL bar in Linux Chrome has unnecessarily high latency. The profiling tools are quite excellent⚬ Built a culture that uniquely prioritized writing. We wrote detailed weekly progress notes since the company started. This culture still persists at Playground AI, since it was so successful⚬ Conducted dozens of user interviews and strategized on product decisions⚬ Supported security audits, given that Mighty was effectively running arbitrary user code and networking trafficI then helped transition the company to Playground AI. I wrote some thoughts on closing Mighty here: https://blog.chaselambda.com/2022/11/15/mighty-shutting-down.html. I mainly worked on infrastructure and building a distributed training job runner.Technical

San Francisco, California, Us

First team member outside of the founders.⚬ Built our scooter tracking software with Firebase and Typescript⚬ Supported my colleague's sidewalk ML classifier project⚬ Integrated our first off-the-shelf scooter to work with our backend, which involved reverse engineering the scooter, PCBA design, MCU bringup, designing the communications layer, finding hidden Android APIs, working with the Android vendor to make a custom rooted ROM, some simple Free RTOS usage, and bluetooth.⚬ Travelled to China several times to help with manufacturing for their next generation scooters⚬ Lived in DC for 4 months to launch the first city-sanctioned scooter program⚬ Helped manage a team of 20 in DC to build and repair our scooters⚬ Built a strong company culture⚬ Managed firmware/electronics contractorsTechnical skills: Typescript, Firebase, Android (Java), Linux, DevOps, EE, Firmware (C)

Mountain View, California, Us

⚬ Designed and built 100% of our manufacturing and test software⚬ Architected our firmware encryption and authentication system⚬ Supported the ramp from 0 to 10k+ skateboards, visiting China 4 times⚬ Debugged a myriad of issues as we went through validation and into mass production

Mountain View, California, Us

⚬ Prototyped several dockless bike form factors⚬ Ran dozens of user studies to pinpoint the proper design⚬ Build a remote monitoring and alerting system to support real world theft tests⚬ Built custom circuit boards for theft prevention

South San Francisco, California, Us

⚬ Shipped Stripe's instant payout feature.⚬ Spearheaded moving Stripe away from Github⚬ Built SAML authenticationI ended up leaving soon after I started because I wanted to keep digging into hardware. Here's a post I wrote about Stripe:http://blog.chaselambda.com/2015/08/27/stripe.html

Mountain View, California, Us

Mini internship before joining Stripe. Prototyping new products -- I continued on this trajectory when I went back to Boosted.

New York, Ny, Us

The Recurse Center is a "writer's retreat for programmers". I worked on a wide variety of topics, check out some of them!http://blog.chaselambda.com/2014/12/21/hacker-school-projects.html

Mountain View, Ca, Us

⚬ Wrote a Linux kernel driver for the rotating dial of the Nest's new thermostat. This code shipped with the devices for the next 9 years 🤯, 2015 - 2024.⚬ Integrated a cheaper NAND chip⚬ Learned how to read an 800 page datasheet

San Francisco, California, Us

⚬ Built out monitoring infrastructure from scratch (Nagios, Chef, Python, Javascript)⚬ Built our data pipeline team to consume the swath of images we took each day

Denver, Colorado, Us

Built a temporal analysis feature for the new Palantir frontend interfaceTools: Javascript, D3.js

San Francisco, California, Us

⚬ Built a prototype of one tron-like game⚬ Built another game with a the rest of the team that won $100k in prizes at NodeJam 2012

Taught classes ranging from Frisbee and Texas history to discrete math and web development.

Austin, Texas, Us

Built a Japanese salary extraction tool for job listings, among other things

Summer of my Freshman year. Taught about 30 local area students mobile technology and entrepreneurship for 6 weeks. Coordinated a team of 4 others. Brought students to a proficient level of building their own mobile applications by the end of the class.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Part time, while in school. Main project was building a tool that allows a user to interact with Twitter through voice

San Francisco, California, Us

⚬ Built a new canvas-based game

Austin, Texas, Us

3 separate summer internships during high school. Joined when the team was ~30 people, as part of their first intern group.⚬ Created a UI to detect possible "robots" in order to increase advertiser click quality, which was used for several years after I first built it.⚬ Streamlined the process of communication with outsourced developers.⚬ Began the internationalization of indeed.com (now in 54 countries).⚬ Built various other tools for analytics and for business people to interact with indeed.The majority of the work was in Java and Javascript

⚬ Built over a dozen websites. I focused on Runescape, Myspace, magic tricks, forums, and jokes⚬ Extensive SEO that gained me the #1 google result for "myspace contact tables"⚬ Sold this website for $9600 as a high school freshman⚬ Made another $30k through advertising on other myspace related websites

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