Clay Richardson
CoFounder, CEO, CTO at Mothership Supercomputers
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolClay Richardson is a multidisciplinary engineer and serial founder with 14 years of experience building infrastructure, AI systems, and novel hardware-software integrations across startups and high-growth companies. As CoFounder/CTO/CEO he’s led projects from industrial real estate and manufacturing automation to confidential-compute AI enclaves and supercomputer-driven robotics, often shipping production-grade systems where safety, scale, and adversarial robustness matter. He’s an open-source-heavy AI systems architect who materially improved 7B LLM performance benchmarks, contributed to alpaca-LoRa replication on consumer hardware, and pioneered resource-efficient quantization and Cerebras training of code models. Clay’s research foresaw Chain-of-Thought and hybrid SSM/Transformer trends months before publication, and he’s exploring genomic-style compression and evolutionary pruning to make model training more efficient. Comfortable from low-level cryptography and secure MPC designs to LangChain/LLama.cpp deployment stacks, he blends deep research instincts with hands-on execution and a willingness to work on the technical frontier. Based in Phoenix, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a track record of turning speculative research into deployable systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Dropout Computer Science and Applied Physics, Dropout Computer Science and Applied Physics at East Texas A&M University
English, asl
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Github Skills (48)
water8
mining6
bosh6
blockchain-platform5
google4
wallet4
blockchain4
python4
blockchain-network4
api3
verge3
poloniex3
datadog3
arm3
cli3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openawg/openawg.github.io
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:87 commits, 5 PRs, 81 pushes in 8 months
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