Summary
Don Chesworth is a software engineer and machine learning specialist with 10 years of experience building containerized ML pipelines, distributed multi-GPU training, and model-serving microservices for production. He has led ML teams at Red Hat and currently contributes ML engineering for Meta Reality Labs, translating research models into scalable Kubernetes-deployed services. Don blends data science and DevOps—automating MLflow tracking, Spark ETLs, TorchServe deployments, and CI/CD for reproducible model delivery—and has built utility libraries (dask-quik, pytorch-quik) to simplify switching between CPU/GPU stacks. Trained in systems engineering and data science, he also brings unusual cross-domain experience in large-scale program coordination and nonprofit leadership, which informs his pragmatic approach to productizing ML. Based in Fountain Valley, CA, he favors practical infrastructure that accelerates Data Scientists’ productivity and helps turn prototypes into reliable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Fairport High School
Master of Divinity - MDiv, Master of Divinity - MDiv at Princeton Theological Seminary
Bachelor of Science - BS, Systems Engineering, with Distinction, Bachelor of Science - BS, Systems Engineering, with Distinction at University of Virginia
Spanish