I’m an ML 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. I’ve spent the past 7 years on ML Engineering and AI Research across a variety of domains and organisations.
My hobbies include filmmaking, music production, technology, and sci-fi. I can often be found combining two or more of those at a time.
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- 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 an ML startup called Bountyful AI, backed by Europe’s leading accelerator, EF.
- As Principal 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 developed TableDiffusion, the first diffusion model for privatised tabular data.
- My MSc thesis examined methods for synthesising privatised (healthcare) data using generative models like GANs, autoencoders, and denoising diffusion models.
- I’ve applied ML to Quantified-Self projects and used Genetic Programming to evolve automated dosing models for the anticoagulant drug Warfarin.
- 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. If you love the sound of my voice, there are 31 episodes worth of it and thousands of other listeners worldwide.
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 X, Bluesky, or by email.