chris alexiuk

About

Sr. Product Research Engineer at NVIDIA and co-author of The AI Engineering Bootcamp (Wiley, 2026). Previously co-founded AI Makerspace, where I taught thousands of engineers to build with LLMs. Passionate about large language models, agents, and evals — and about making AI accessible to every developer.

Experience

Sr. Product Research Engineer, Deep Learning · NVIDIA

Drive developer-focused research and advocacy for NVIDIA’s generative AI stack, with a focus on the Nemotron family of open models. Author NVIDIA Technical Blog articles on LLMs, agents, and evaluation; build reference implementations and demos; and help shape products through hands-on research with the latest models.

Co-Founder & CTO · AI Makerspace

Co-founded an online AI engineering education platform and community. Led curriculum and product strategy, and instructed engineers in the AI Engineering Bootcamp — covering LLMOps, agents, evals, and shipping real-world AI applications. The curriculum became The AI Engineering Bootcamp (Wiley, 2026).

ML Curriculum Developer & Instructor · FourthBrain (AI Fund)

Developed and taught machine learning course material for the Machine Learning Engineer program — full-stack ML skills including data pipelines, modeling, and MLOps. Mentored students through capstone projects.

Founding Machine Learning Engineer · Ox

Led development of core ML features for an AI conversation coaching platform — real-time NLP models delivering personalized feedback, end-to-end ML pipelines, and the company’s initial MLOps practices.

Data Scientist · Explorer Hop

Applied data analytics and ML to an educational technology platform. Built predictive models to personalize learning and contributed to R&D including a wake-word detection system (Turtle.AI).

Skills

LLMs & Agents

Large Language ModelsAgents (LangGraph, MCP)Evals & BenchmarkingPost-Training & Fine-Tuning (LoRA/PEFT)RAGPrompt Engineering

Engineering

PythonPyTorchHugging FaceNVIDIA NeMo & NemotronCUDATypeScriptDockerCI/CDAWS/GCP

Advocacy & Teaching

Technical WritingPublic SpeakingCurriculum DevelopmentYouTube & Video ContentCommunity LeadershipD&D

Education

Machine Learning Engineering Certificate

FourthBrain

2022

Undergraduate Studies in Science

Trent University

Ontario, Canada

Computer Technology Coursework

Seneca College

Ontario, Canada

Contact

The fastest way to reach me is email — or find me wherever the AI conversation is happening.