David Silin
Co-Founder And Chief Science Officer at QuillBot
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Silin is a software engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience building production ML systems and web applications from Chicago. As Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at QuillBot, he led development of the original paraphraser and continues to advance Seq2Seq and BERT-style models, focusing on PyTorch, T5/BART, data filtration/annotation and cost-efficient deployment via distillation and TorchScript. His background spans full-stack development (React, Node, ArangoDB) and legacy systems (VB, MUMPS), reflecting an ability to bridge modern ML engineering with complex, production-grade codebases. Earlier roles at Epic and internships in ASP.NET/JQuery and SQL sharpened his pragmatic engineering discipline for large systems. He’s comfortable moving models from research to lean production and has hands-on experience automating annotation and model compression to reduce inference cost. Based in Chicago, he combines startup leadership with deep implementation skills that keep both product and science moving forward.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChoate Rosemary Hall
Github Skills (67)
python10
deep-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
8-bit10
bit10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
speech-recognition10
jax9
transformers9
language-model9
pruning9
bert9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chessgecko/mumps-vscode
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
chessgecko/PokerTVServer
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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