Christopher Burns
Principal Generative AI Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Burns is a Principal Generative AI Engineer based in Austin with 20+ years of deep technical experience spanning cloud computing, deep learning, software engineering and spatial computing. He has led high-impact ML and spatial initiatives at AWS—advising S-Team executives on keynote-level ML strategy and building a Spatial Computing partner segment that helped partners generate over $50M ARR—before joining Cloudera to focus on generative AI. Comfortable bridging C-suite strategy and hands-on engineering, he combines SDE roots with solution architecture, MLOps and AR/VR expertise, and has trained thousands of practitioners in deep learning. His background ranges from low-level automation and mechanical engineering foundations to enterprise cloud migrations and developer-facing AI tooling, which gives him a pragmatic, systems-first view of AI productization. An active GitHub presence and a knack for translating complex technical work into compelling presentations make him a frequent speaker and internal thought leader. Colleagues rely on him for technical depth, strategic storytelling, and turning bleeding-edge AI research into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at The University of AkronAlliance High School
Github Skills (105)
object-detection9
computer-vision9
python9
deep-learning9
jpl9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
q-learning8
darknet8
neural-network8
beaglebone-black8
gymnasium8
yolov48
i2c8
data-science8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Christopheraburns/yolo-docker
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
yolov3 in a docker container (fronted by Flask)
Contributions:108 commits, 98 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pytorchpythondocker-imageflaskdocker
Christopheraburns/pokedex_scraper
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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