Blake C
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake C is an optical engineering leader with eight years of industry experience and a PhD in Optical Sciences, now applying deep optics and systems expertise as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously a Principal Optical Engineer at Apple for a decade, Blake led prototyping and executive demos for novel iPhone lighting and camera modules, turning conceptual lens ideas into scalable, manufacturable solutions. His background bridges academic research—where he built concentrated photovoltaic systems and patented high-power solar optics—with hands-on prototype design, rendering, and animation for product reviews. Comfortable iterating with industrial design and cross-functional teams, he has a reputation for translating ambitious optics concepts into polished demos and experimental hardware. An understated detail: he has moved seamlessly between academia, stealth startup culture, and large-scale consumer product development, signaling both inventive rigor and pragmatic delivery.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBachelor of Science Physics, Bachelor of Science Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (149)
transformers10
python10
microphone10
deep-learning10
compression10
gemma10
pydantic10
glm10
text-to-image10
chatgpt10
whisper10
multimodal10
audio10
falcon10
generative-ai10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mallorbc/compiler-course
Aug 2019 - Jul 2026
Contributions:84 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years
mallorbc/Finetune_LLMs
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Repo for fine-tuning Casual LLMs
Contributions:1 review, 53 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 5 months
fine-tuningdockerfalcongptgpt-3
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