Chris Cummins
Member Of Technical Staff at Axiom
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Cummins is an AI-for-code specialist and Member of Technical Staff with 13 years of experience building research-to-production systems that automate programming and compiler workflows. He has driven breakthroughs across Meta FAIR, DeepMind, Google, Intel and Axiom—co-leading an AI agent that scored perfectly on Putnam 2025 and creating the proof-evaluation and compiler infrastructure that enables larger models on TPUs. Based in Palo Alto, he blends deep academic training (PhD, University of Edinburgh) with pragmatic engineering across ML foundations, compilers, and code optimization. Known for "automating himself out of a job" since 2014, he has a track record of shipping first-of-kind models and benchmarks that move research into production. Less obvious: he pairs adversarial curiosity—finding dozens of real bugs in GPU compilers—with a knack for turning that insight into scalable tooling and evaluation pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels Electronics Mathematics Physics, A Levels Electronics Mathematics Physics at Birkdale School, SheffieldDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatics at University of EdinburghMaster of Engineering (MEng) Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Aston University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
auto-tuning10
benchmark10
metadata10
datasets10
bazel10
performance-tuning10
keras10
python10
parallel-computing10
cm10
opencl10
modularity10
gtts10
lazy-evaluation10
google-translate10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisCummins/visioncpp
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 16 PRs, 82 pushes in 4 months
pythongpuportablegraphgraph-algorithms
ChrisCummins/program_explorer
May 2020 - Mar 2021
🌎 Web application for visualizing compiler IRs
Contributions:1 review, 17 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
javascriptweb-applicationcompiler-irswebassemblyirs
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