Chris Alexiuk
Developer Advocate, Deep Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Alexiuk is a Developer Advocate for Deep Learning at NVIDIA and co-founder/CTO of AI Makerspace, bringing a decade of hands-on experience in machine learning, generative AI, and LLMs. He blends developer-facing advocacy with practical product engineering, having built wake-word zero-shot models and served as a founding ML engineer at early-stage startups. Chris also designs curriculum and teaches ML practitioners, helping learners find their "sea legs" through FourthBrain. He actively shares work on projects like Nemotron and AI Makerspace tools, bridging research prototypes and developer tooling. Based in Toronto, he pairs a physics and computer engineering background with a practical ML engineering education, favoring end-to-end systems that move models from idea to production. An entrepreneur at heart, he focuses on making sophisticated AI accessible to developers and teams.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Trent UniversityComputer Engineering Technology/Technician, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician at Seneca PolytechnicMachine Learning Engineer Computer Science, Machine Learning Engineer Computer Science at FourthBrain
Github Skills (60)
vector-database10
llm10
fine-tuning10
data-structures10
gpt10
application10
octopus9
discord-py8
codex8
summarization8
transfer-learning7
chatgpt7
squad7
to-do7
prompt7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AI-Maker-Space/Interactive-Dev-Environment-for-LLM-Development
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Set up your local dev environment just like pro LLMOps practitioners.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
AI-Maker-Space/Beyond-ChatGPT
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Building your first LLM application with OpenAI, Chainlit, and Hugging Face, step-by-step!
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
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