Chris De Vries
Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolChris De Vries is a Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer based in Berlin with over two decades of cross-domain experience building production ML, distributed systems, and high-performance infrastructure. He holds a PhD in computer science with 12 peer-reviewed publications in top venues (CIKM, SIGIR, WWW) and a thesis once nominated for an outstanding award, underscoring a strong research-to-production pedigree. Chris has led and shipped impactful systems at Amazon, startups and scaleups—ranging from web-scale crawlers and real-time analytics to LLM security research and distributed pretraining/inference optimizations. He combines deep systems-level expertise in C++, CUDA, PyTorch and Erlang with practical product delivery, mentoring, and technical leadership during rapid growth phases. Notably, he has hands-on experience optimizing inference and checkpointing for LLMs and has repeatedly moved state-of-the-art models into latency-sensitive, high-scale environments. Colleagues describe him as someone who enjoys hard technical challenges and building systems people actually enjoy using.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Information Retrieval Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science Information Retrieval Machine Learning at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Visiting researcher at Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Centre Computer Science, Visiting researcher at Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Centre Computer Science at Universität Bielefeld
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
nlg9
invalidation9
natural-language-generation7
targets7
nlp6
jit6
cluster-analysis6
optimization6
floating-point6
sql6
pipeline6
natural-language-processing6
data-mining6
gluon6
interpreter6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cmdevries/markovify
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:50 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
cmdevries/LMW-tree
Aug 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:104 commits, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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