Chris Murphy
Machine Learning Engineer at klaviyo
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Murphy is a Senior Data Scientist and AI engineer in Boston with nine years of experience building production-grade multi-agent systems, information retrieval, reinforcement learning, and fine-tuned models across text, multimodal, audio, diffusion, and biological domains. He pioneered low-resource language modeling in 2019 by training LLMs for Kikuyu and Luganda, representing 15 million Kenyan speakers, and brings practical experience in quantization, efficient inference, and prompt engineering. Certified in MEDDPICC, AI & BioTechnology from MIT, and AI Product Management, he blends technical depth with product and go-to-market sensibilities. His work spans genomics, molecular and protein modeling to single-cell analysis, revealing a rare cross-disciplinary fluency between ML and life sciences. Chris has consulted on high-impact campaigns (including programmatic advertising for the 2016 US Presidential race) and maintains a public portfolio and blog that document applied ML projects and practical trade-offs. He excels at translating cutting-edge research into deployable systems that serve underserved languages and scientific use cases.
9 years of coding experience
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
French
Github Skills (60)
web-crawler9
attention-mechanism9
scraper9
audio9
principal-component-analysis9
nlp8
streamlit8
python8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
llm8
pytorch8
transformers7
high-energy-physics7
deep-learning7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
christopher-w-murphy/Digital-HTC-Architecture
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
OCR and Machine Translation
Contributions:79 commits, 25 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
machine-translationocrarchitecturebashcomputer-vision
softmax1/Flash-Attention-Softmax-N
Aug 2023 - May 2024
CUDA and Triton implementations of Flash Attention with SoftmaxN.
Contributions:16 releases, 31 PRs, 25 pushes in 9 months
cudaartificial-intelligenceattention-mechanismdeep-learningpytorch
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