Brandon McKinzie
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrandon Mckinzie is a seasoned machine learning engineer and researcher specializing in NLP and large-scale multimodal learning, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. He blends a rigorous physics background with AI research, having worked across Apple Foundation Models, NLP stacks, Forge.AI, Agora, Berkeley and MIT; his early career in high-energy physics informs his approach to robust, scalable systems. His work spans from language modeling and event extraction to low-latency inference, with a track record of building production-ready ML components and research prototypes. Based in California, he holds a Stanford AI certificate and a Physics/CS degree from UC Berkeley, plus participation in the Neuromatch Academy. A GitHub profile notes a passion for clean code and deep learning, and his neural style transfer avatar hints at an interest in multimodal ML and creative tooling. He seeks to understand intelligence in humans and machines, exploring intersections of ML and neuroscience.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
46reputation
1kreached
3answers
1question
Github Skills (88)
python10
deep-learning10
ml10
neural-network10
chatbot10
conversation10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
dialog9
cpp9
machine-learning-models9
loader9
high-performance8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mckinziebrandon/mckinziebrandon.github.io
May 2016 - Sep 2018
Personal website/portfolio.
Contributions:221 commits, 2 PRs, 272 pushes in 2 years 4 months
personal-portfolio-websitereact
mckinziebrandon/DeepChatModels
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Conversation models in TensorFlow. (website removed)
Contributions:547 commits, 3 PRs, 369 pushes in 8 months
seq2seqconversationtensorflowtensorflow2chatbot
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