Chris Jones
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Jones is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Seattle with 12 years of industry experience and a long history of technical leadership stretching back to the late 1990s. He leads engineering teams at the Allen Institute for AI, blending hands-on DevOps and CI/CD expertise—recently integrating GPU-enabled Docker pipelines for ML-focused repos like olmocr—with strategic program management. Prior roles at Vulcan and Skylight show deep experience in software architecture and product delivery for complex, mission-driven projects such as EarthRanger. Known for streamlining build and test automation, he combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with people leadership to move research-grade systems into reliable production. A Washington State University computer science graduate, he quietly pairs decades of legacy-system knowledge with modern ML infrastructure practices.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Washington State University
Github Skills (12)
sh10
github-ci10
script10
docker10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
dockers10
scripting10
cicd10
pytest9
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python8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
allenai/olmocr
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Toolkit for linearizing PDFs for LLM datasets/training
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris focused on setting up and configuring the CI/CD pipeline for the `olmocr` repository. Their contributions involved creating and modifying shell scripts to build and test the project within a Docker environment. The user integrated GPU support into the build process, managing dependencies and configuring test execution. They also updated the project's testing and setup files to streamline the build process.
cmwilhelm/dusky
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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