carson poole's resume

worked with nvidia to optimize deepseek's r1 inference performance to beat the world record at the time, including outperforming specialized hardware like sambanova's systems

this required many completely custom kernels for optimizing expert selection + routing, fully custom gemm kernels with a fully custom quantization spec to minimize quantization error, and lots more

trained lots of transformer models on rather unique modalities

built the first platform that enabled fine-tuning and deploying of archaic llms like gpt-j, including pioneering multi-lora serving that oss didn't replicate for about a year, achieving $131k monthly peak revenue

created a chat interface with innovative features (first to implement chat sharing) that grew to 3m users

developed sota wildfire spread prediction models using vit unets for the california and colorado state wildfire services