Charles Goddard
Chief Of Frontier Research at Arcee.ai
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Goddard is a seasoned software engineer and research leader with 11 years of experience at the intersection of AR/VR, aerospace, and machine learning, currently serving as Chief of Frontier Research at Arcee.ai. He led high-impact projects at NASA JPL—building cloud 3D reconstruction pipelines for Martian imagery and rendering 10M+ triangle CAD models for mixed reality—and later scaled R&D work across industry roles at Apple and as a CTO. Charles blends deep systems and algorithmic expertise with hands-on ML tooling, exemplified by contributions to mergekit for merging pretrained large language models. Based in Los Angeles, he is recognized for award-winning innovation and a consistent ability to turn research prototypes into production-ready visualization and reconstruction systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Github Skills (14)
transformers10
llama10
transformer10
lm10
large-language-models10
python10
llm10
safetensors9
pytorch9
huggingface8
command-line-interface8
huggingface-hub8
cli8
command-line8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arcee-ai/mergekit
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Tools for merging pretrained large language models.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 26 reviews, 221 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Charles implemented core functionality for merging large language models within the mergekit project. Their contributions involved the creation of a new merging method utilizing sign differences, including the development of related Python code and dependencies. The user also exposed options for the command line for more flexibility. They further demonstrated proficiency in model configuration and saving, ensuring proper model functionality within the project.
llamallmmodel-merging
cg123/axolotl
May 2023 - Mar 2024
Go ahead and axolotl questions
Contributions:127 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
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