Chris Hayduk
Forward Deployed Engineer, Life Sciences at OpenAI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChris Hayduk is a Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in life sciences at OpenAI with 11 years of experience building and deploying AI systems for drug discovery, clinical development, and related biomedical workflows. He combines deep applied ML expertise—from GNNs and LLMs to distributed training with FSDP/DeepSpeed—with hands-on production experience integrating models like AlphaFold, ESMFold, and DiffDock into scalable cloud architectures. Previously at Meta he improved ads ranking using graph representation learning, and at Deloitte he led Atlas AI, architecting causal knowledge graphs, RAG pipelines, and full-stack deployments including React/Node backends. Trained in mathematics and applied statistics and currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science (AI) at Georgia Tech, he bridges rigorous quantitative foundations with pragmatic engineering. Notably, he has retrained and fine-tuned 15B+ parameter models and operationalized large-scale biomedical model stacks, reflecting a rare mix of research, systems, and product delivery in life sciences AI.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics at The City College of New YorkMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Fordham UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Applied Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Applied Statistics at Fordham Gabelli School of Business
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
intellij10
data-science9
pytorch9
java9
python9
machine-learning9
adapter9
linear-algebra9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
audio9
nlp8
lora8
math-library8
jax8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisHayduk/Statistical-Rethinking-Solutions
Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
ChrisHayduk/ChrisHayduk
Sep 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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