Alex Richards
Software Engineer at FloQast
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Richards is a Tech Lead and senior ML engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance inference systems and MLOps at NVIDIA, where he leads delivery of the NeMo Retriever inference microservices. He combines deep hands-on expertise—optimizing latency/throughput, designing build/runtime libraries, and productizing research models—with cross-team leadership that drives "Speed of Light" releases and rigorous accuracy. Prior roles span computer vision and edge deployments, where he shipped scalable on-device inference across thousands of units and designed novel data and reidentification pipelines. Comfortable as a solutions architect and PIC for platform CLIs, he bridges research, infrastructure, and productization to move models into production. Based in San Francisco, he also pursues interests in blockchain and brain–machine interfacing, reflecting a curiosity for emerging intersections of ML and human-computer systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University at AlbanyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Brookline High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Government at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (57)
rekordbox10
music10
ffmpeg9
python9
youtube9
machine-learning9
youtube-dl9
deep-learning9
keras9
cli9
computer-vision8
object-detection8
hyperparameter-tuning8
tensorflow8
neural-network8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
a-rich/a-rich.github.io
Mar 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
a-rich/DJ-Tools-dev-docs
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:150 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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