About

I build machine learning systems for a living. I’m also chasing the perfect lifelong training plan. Occasional thoughts and blogs below.

Blog

Batch or stream processing in machine learning?

Unlocking Large Language Model potential: Large Language Model Training

Tackling machine learning problems

Annotated guide to Andrej Karpathy’s GPT (WIP)

How to ship

Projects

ExtractAPI. A distributed document extraction service powered by multi-modal machine learning pipelines.

Berkie. Berkadia’s generative AI companion, including a chatbot and retrieval augmented generation API, and training large-scale LLMs.

MalDomain. A Malicious URL detection system.

IdentityRisk. Heuristic-based full-stack risk engine for risk remediation at a major bank.

Wilson's Deep Playlist Generator. Spotify RNN-based playlist generator.

Contact

👨🏻‍💼: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistair-gillespie/

👨‍💻: https://github.com/alistairwgillespie

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