Christopher Burns
Principal Generative AI Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Burns is a Principal Generative AI Engineer at Cloudera with more than two decades of hands-on software, cloud, and distributed-systems leadership. He blends deep ML and cloud architecture expertise with business- and executive-facing communication, having shaped AWS's ML and spatial-computing initiatives, co-authored the initial AWS ML competency for SI partners, and trained thousands of partner personnel. His technical sweet spots include synthetic data generation, TensorFlow and PyTorch deployments, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and production-grade inference across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments. A rare blend of manufacturing and hardware sensibilities—he's worked as a CNC machinist, tool-and-die maker, and robotics installer—complementing his software leadership and architectural rigor in 3D asset pipelines and AR/VR experiences. Based in Austin, Texas, he earned a mechanical engineering degree from The University of Akron and maintains an active GitHub presence as AI Jedi @Cloudera.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at The University of AkronAlliance High School
Github Skills (114)
object-detection9
computer-vision9
python9
deep-learning9
jpl9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
q-learning8
darknet8
neural-network8
beaglebone-black8
gymnasium8
yolov48
i2c8
data-science8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Christopheraburns/yolo-docker
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
yolov3 in a docker container (fronted by Flask)
Contributions:108 commits, 98 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pytorchpythondocker-imageflaskdocker
Christopheraburns/pokedex_scraper
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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