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Phoenix, Az, Us

Phoenix, Az, Us

AI and supercomputers running industrial robotics for manufacturing and small batch extraction/refinement, factory/testbed as a service.

New York, Ny, Us

Transforming PoC and prototype systems to resilient and self-healing production infrastructure and automation. Designing systems to scale gracefully from the start.- Virtual Data Room agents - Due Diligence - M&A - Chapter 11 - Compliance - PE - Replaces teams of people and cuts time by orders of magnitude, 4 wks -> 4 hrs

AI systems architect specializing in high-dimensional prompts, base-model latent spaces, adversarialcollaboration, resource efficient training, and emergent capabilities.Contributor to alpaca-LoRa [0] model replication on consumer hardware with LoRa and delobotomization ofStanford's Alpaca instruction following training dataset. [1]Achieved significant performance increases on MultiNLI benchmark, from 38.33 to 51.6, becoming the #1performing 7B OSS LLM as benched by Nomic AI on 2023-03-28. [2]Training Cerebras models on structured code for emergent properties without breakage. [3]Quantized models for resource constrained environments. [4]Researching genomic mapping and evolutionary algorithms for efficient compression of training data andneural generation/pruning of generalization and intuition structures through causal learning. [5][0]: https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora[1]: https://github.com/gururise/AlpacaDataCleaned[2]: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.nomic.ai/gpt4all/2023_GPT4All-J_Technical_Report_2.pdf[3]: https://huggingface.co/claysauruswrecks/cerebras-gpt-111m-pretrain-stack-smol-1-30k-2e/tensorboard?params=scalars#frame[4]: https://huggingface.co/claysauruswrecks/Giraffe-v2-13b-32k-GGUF[5]: https://gist.github.com/claysauruswrecks/e59df47bc41acc7c24091c0bc96af6e0GGUF, LangChain, Llama.cpp, LlamaHub, LlamaIndex, PyTorch, Qdrant, Quantization, Training, Weaviate

Wrapped backtrader and Jupyter notebooks with Django for leveraged momentum strategy [back|fore]testing and versioned execution state auditing.Scaled parallel execution of parameter optimizer search with worker queues, cached DataFrames, and content addressing. De-duped simulation execution of studies with overlapping parameter sets containing tens of millions of members.91% [branch, model, integration, factory, unit] coverage. $750k 30-day volume @ 5m, 15m, 1h.Backtrader, CCXT, Django, Jupyter, Python, Redis

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Working on the innovation R&D team to build rapid prototypes and PoCs, demonstrate chatbot/assistant/agent capabilities over data and intelligence.Agents, Claude3, GPT-4, LangChain, Next.js, Python, Tailwind, Vercel SDK

San Francisco, Ca, Us

CUDA, Docker, Go, Python

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for all ingress traffic and front end infrastructure routing into VPC and ECS. Migrated legacy Rails infrastructure from SoftLayer to multi-account (~70) AWS with heavy cross-account IAM policies.Took ownership of abandoned services/jobs in order to upgrade downstream data stores with minimal downtime as part of a critical vulnerability remediation effort that had wide-reaching impact.Implemented WAF, DB query audit logging and load testing, dependency and code scanning as part of ITGC and IPO readiness initiatives. 25 — 50% of work time was focused on supporting security team sprints, projects, roadmap, and remediation efforts.Collaborated on cross-team projects and internal customer support requests to manage production environments. Participated in on-call rotation and incident response for Core Infrastructure and Security teams.Interview curriculum author and panelist for Senior CoreInfra and Senior Security Engineer positions.AWS, Chef, EKS, Percona, Rails, Sidekiq, Terraform

San Francisco, Us

Operationalized open source realtime videoconferencing and communication components to support rapiddeployment of white label experiences for events and live broadcast productions.Designed UX/UI wireframes and mobile prototypes for pitch decks/videos.Developed protocols for relativistic synchronized remote live performances.AWS, Electron, Java, Jitsi, Lua, Mattermost, ReactJS, XMPP

San Francisco, California, Us

Migrated legacy video messaging infrastructure to handle scaling from $30M to $300M valuation and maintaineduptime during a critical fundraising round. Onboarded new infrastructure team.We transitioned from artisanal server management to automated failovers on standby production environments in 6months, while scaling to meet increased demand.AWS, Chef, EKS, Helm, Istio, JS, RDS, Ruby, SQS, Terraform

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developed prototype mobile banking iOS/Android application with low-friction signup flow for investor demos.Flutter

San Francisco, California, Us

API development and mobile banking backend architecture with ReactJS frontend and integration with different API providers. TPM & UX engineering as necessary, managed/planned contracting firm work, roadmap planning.Interview panelist for CTO and engineering roles.

San Francisco, California, Us

Designed "Private Key Management for Everyone" dPKI (decentralized Public Key Infrastructure) protocol utilizing SMPC (Secure MultiParty Computation). Protocol defined delegated key recovery with Proof-of-Intent and data layer auditing for technical whitepaper which helped facilitate a $30M seed round. Easy UX flows with in-person or remote-only optionality, and institutional/escrow opt-in.

We are a boutique engineering firm specializing in hard to solve problems. From microchip to UX, prototype to production, we’ve got the stack pretty much covered.Crypto EngineeringDistributed consensus implementations require a systematic approach to design and development. Our experience in developing and integrating complex systems is what enables us to evaluate and recommend a mix of old-school and novel approaches to building cryptographically verified systems. With people randomly patching cryptographic libraries left and right, it’s the wild west out there. We can wrangle risks and leverage technology in a reasonably secure way. There’s more to it than just “Blockchain”. We recently designed a decentralized PKI with private key recovery protocols and Proof-of-Intent on top of a distributed API, and a decentralized accounting system with reputation-staked oracles validating Proof-of-Contribution and administrated through Digital Jurisdiction.Information SecurityComputers run most of the systems people rely on everyday. Most systems are implemented completely or partly in memory-unsafe languages. Optimistically, bugs occur every 1000 lines of code. OS kernels contain millions of lines of code. Being reasonably secure requires constant review and testing to ensure integrity. Our relationships with security vendors and researchers affords us a large pool of solutions and talent to pull from. Require the APC equivalent of a mobile computation environment? We have a managed OS designed for APTs. Need a datacenter to match your secure implementation? We have developed protocols with Private Military Contractors and Field Engineers focused on reliable, discreet, and secure facility operation.Automation EngineeringWhether it’s CI/CD pipelines, containers, service introspection, or self-healing services, we have over a decade of experience attaching robots to levers in large scale distributed systems. Hardware + Docker = <3

Open source water generation and filtration - https://openawg.github.io/Rapid prototyping and experimentation of open source water generation and filtration technologies. Developed a vision and strategy for open source physical infrastructure, and attracted people to help execute the vision.Ongoing collaboration with the U.N.trepreneurship Initiative which brings together entrepreneurs from the global social innovation community and UN intrapreneurs — staff leading entrepreneurial initiatives from within the organization — together to share our work and discuss how we might help each other pave the way towards achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals.Collaboration with meteorologists to develop and iterate models for predicting performance characteristics of large-scale atmospheric water generation in hot, arid environments. Collaboration with EPA-certified laboratories and scientists to develop, execute, and iterate on experiments to determine water quality and safety. Design and fabrication of scientific apparatus for rapid experimentation. Asynchronous telemetry in Python using Gevent and sensor plugin architecture, this is being rewritten in Elixir using a message bus as the control system backbone. Infrastructure for operationalizing several ROS nodes.Elixir Python Jupyter Notebook I2C, SPI, UART, 2-wire Embedded Linux BeagleBone Black Raspberry Pi Arduino Yocto Linux ROS (Robot Operating System) Docker Thermoelectric Heat Pumps Materials Science Physical Chemistry Rapid Prototyping 3D Printing HVACR

San Francisco, California, Us

Main responsibilities included automating the daily operations of a public and private-hosted PaaS: https://run.pivotal.io/Wrote a little open source tool which allowed a LISP-like DSL to be implemented inside YAML documents using the limited character-set defined in the YAML tag specification, resulting in forward-persisting transformation definitions inside valid YAML. This allowed us to easily clone environments.https://github.com/pivotal-cloudops/monkey_kingWrote a tool to deploy new environments with one-command orchestrating: Jumpbox, Concourse, and CI/CD of BOSH and Cloud Foundry.Deployed Cloud Foundry and other services through BOSH on multiple IaaS providers. Built and managed pipelines for continuous delivery and smoke-testing of releases and deployments using Concourse CI. Developed educational talks on the architecture of Cloud Foundry, and how the complicated system of components interact with each other.BOSH Concourse CI Cloud Foundry Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Azure OpenStack Enterprise YAML Architect

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Main responsibilities included supporting 6 developer teams by streamlining monitoring & alerting frameworks, build, test, and deployment processes, load & failure testing, eliminating technical debt, and incident management.Developed and ran load tests in Scala for services pre and post launch in preparation for World Cup 2014. This helped to determine failure modes and fan-out rates of services and their dependencies. Migrated services from dedicated hardware to run containerized on Mesos. Migrated PBs of data between Hadoop clusters in different DCs. Implemented a prototype framework in Ruby for programmatically generating visualization dashboards and alerts from services’ namespaced metrics.During a HackWeek, created a tool which utilized Zipkin trace logs to build a graph of Twitter’s internal infrastructure, with diameter of nodes (circles) indicating the total number of Requests Per Second (RPS) incoming to the service, and magnitude of arrows exiting the node indicating the RPS exiting the service and going into another service. All in all, the graph contained around 2500 nodes and 6500 edges.Ruby Puppet Scala Python Nginx HAProxy Jenkins PHP EC2 Hadoop

Backplane provided social communities with a platform to discover, communicate, and create.Architected and built infrastructure from the ground up with Puppet, and scaled services to handle large amounts of traffic when Lady Gaga would tweet about real-time interactions with global fans on our platform. Once the platform expanded beyond a single social community, we had to migrate over to an architecture which allowed for quick provisioning of new communities, and dealt with the scaling and security issues that brought.Ruby Puppet Python Nginx HAProxy Jenkins PHP EC2

San Francisco, California, Us

Winter 2011 Batch — OneSchool

Built and maintained infrastructure, MySQL database, and Django API for mobile apps used by US college students. Integrated systems when we merged with another startup which scraped textbook information.Worked on realtime bus tracker in Python which scraped universities’ javascript bus tracker dashboards, and displayed them live in-app. Unfortunately, the startup crazy train crashed and burned on this one.Python Django Puppet Apache Nginx Rackspace

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Daily operations of a high-traffic ads services provider included managing puppet manifests and roles, deploying new databases to keep up with traffic growth, maintaining alerts and monitoring policies, and incident management.Short term contract work.Puppet Apache Riak Redis EC2

Commerce, Texas, Us

Developed a calendar and scheduling system which was used campus-wide for events and room reservations. We took an open-source calendar system, and modified it to be able to interact with SOAP APIs. We also provided training to campus staff on how to use the system effectively.Linux Apache MySQL PHP vSphere