Cristian Carpenter
Venture Scout at Replica Team
Chile
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolCristian Carpenter is a Venture Scout and AI engineer with 15 years of cross-industry experience, currently leading deep learning work in NLP, ASR, TTS and medical imaging as founder of Replica Team. He specializes in fine-tuning open-source LLMs (LLaMA, Qwen) using PEFT methods like LoRA and building scalable inference servers, blending hands-on model engineering with product-focused deployment. His background in industrial engineering and long track record in payments, digital transformation and startup contracting give him a rare mix of systems thinking, project leadership and investor-facing perspective. An active community contributor and former Community TA for Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning course, he routinely collaborates on open-source AI projects and benchmarks. Based in Chile, he now scouts venture opportunities while investing in and advising early-stage companies, often bridging technical depth with commercial strategy.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
English as a Second Language Program (Ireland), English as a Second Language Program (Ireland) at Delfin English SchoolBachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Santiago de Chile
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (4)
google-app-engine2
javascript1
google1
backbone1
Github contributions (5)
ccarpenterg/introNLP
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:215 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ccarpenterg/LearningPyTorch1.x
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:75 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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