I’m a Machine Learning Research Engineer with a background in Applied AI, Computer Science, and Genetics.

I taught myself to program at age 12 so I could make robots and haven’t stopped building since. Starting in 2018, I’ve worked on ML Engineering and AI Research across a variety of domains and organisations, from startups to governments.

My hobbies include indie filmmaking, music production, technology, and sci-fi. I can usually be found combining a few of these at a time.

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Some background:

  • At the end of 2024, I completed a 12-week batch at the Recurse Center, honing my craft and making fun things. I focused on performance browser graphics, on-device LLMs, learning Rust, and building command-line tools.
  • In 2022, I co-founded a startup called Bountyful AI, backed by Europe’s leading accelerator, EF.
    • As Lead ML Engineer, I developed our MLOps platform for Generative AI: Enabling companies to observe, own, and optimise LLMs via human feedback and knowledge distillation.
    • My work enabled early GPT-3 and 4 adopters to optimise for cost, latency, and performance by distilling to open models on our scalable infrastructure.
    • Demonstrated up to 8x cost reductions and 3x speedup on LLMs via distillation, supervised finetuning, and RLHF.
  • Previously, I worked in a variety of machine learning roles. I’ve developed, trained, evaluated, and deployed ML systems at terabyte scale across scientific, biomedical, financial, and industrial applications.
  • I also used to moonlight as a self-taught quant trader.
  • My academic research has involved applying AI to biomedical sensors, synthetic data, and generative models.
  • I received my MSc in Artificial Intelligence from VU Amsterdam x University of Amsterdam, graduating Cum Laude. I also hold a BSc in Computer Science (Honours) and Genetics, graduating First Class and tied top of the year.
  • I was co-creator and co-host of the Bit of a Tangent podcast with my long-time friend Jared, where we had technical conversations about AI, Neuroscience, Mental Models and how to live better lives. We published 31 episodes with 30,000+ downloads.

If you’re interested in any of my projects, want to work with me, or just think we’d get along, please do reach out on Twitter / X, Bluesky, or by email.