Jan 2023 – Present
NVIDIA
Sr. Product Research Engineer, Deep Learning
I work on NVIDIA’s open Nemotron models, build reference implementations and demos, and write about LLMs, agents, and evaluation for the NVIDIA Technical Blog.
About
I'm Chris, a Sr. Product Research Engineer at NVIDIA and co-author of The AI Engineering Bootcamp (Wiley, 2026). Most of my work is on LLMs, agents, and evals. I also co-founded AI Makerspace, where I taught thousands of engineers to build with LLMs.
Experience
2022 – 2026
AI Makerspace
Co-Founder & CTO
I co-founded AI Makerspace and built and taught its AI Engineering Bootcamp: LLMOps, agents, evals, and getting applications into production. That curriculum became The AI Engineering Bootcamp (Wiley, 2026).
2022
FourthBrain (AI Fund)
ML Curriculum Developer & Instructor
I developed and taught courses on data pipelines, modeling, and MLOps, and mentored students through their capstone projects.
2020 – 2021
Ox
Founding Machine Learning Engineer
I built real-time NLP models for a conversation coaching platform, along with the ML pipelines and MLOps practices to run them.
2019 – 2020
Explorer Hop
Data Scientist
I built models to personalize learning and worked on research projects, including the Turtle.AI wake-word detection system.
What I work with
LLMs & Agents
- Large Language Models
- Agents (LangGraph, MCP)
- Evals & Benchmarking
- Post-Training & Fine-Tuning (LoRA/PEFT)
- RAG
- Prompt Engineering
Engineering
- Python
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face
- NVIDIA NeMo & Nemotron
- CUDA
- TypeScript
- Docker
- CI/CD
- AWS/GCP
Advocacy & Teaching
- Technical Writing
- Public Speaking
- Curriculum Development
- YouTube & Video Content
- Community Leadership
- D&D
Education
2022
Machine Learning Engineering Certificate
FourthBrain
Ontario, Canada
Undergraduate Studies in Science
Trent University
Ontario, Canada
Computer Technology Coursework
Seneca College
Get in touch
Email is the easiest way to reach me.
chris@alexi.uk