Alex Foster
Co-Lead, AI R&D at Invisible Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Foster is a Co-Lead in AI R&D and serial AI entrepreneur with over a decade of hands-on experience across image, NLP, and generative models. He founded two machine learning startups—one exited in 2015—and later led philanthropic advisory and fund management focused on AI safety and biosecurity, running two foundations that now deploy eight-figure annual grants. At Invisible Technologies he helps bring foundation models into production for major providers and enterprise customers, combining deep NLP and GPT expertise with practical systems-building. Recently he re-trained in software development and Python to move from strategy back into technical product delivery, reflecting a maker’s mindset alongside mission-driven work. Based in London, he blends startup grit, research curiosity, and a rare mix of impact-driven philanthropy with deployment-level AI engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
Github Skills (38)
openai-api9
intellisense9
linux9
multimodal9
pylint9
gpt8
anthropic8
flux8
agi8
generative-ai8
stable-diffusion8
raycast8
windows8
letter8
large-language-models8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
agdfoster/drafter-followups
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
tcd-git/trajectories
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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