Dusk Virkus
ML Ops Engineer at Intuition Machines
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarDusk Virkus is an ML Ops Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building and productionizing machine learning systems, currently at Intuition Machines. They bridge research and operations—having implemented accelerated ML papers, redesigned Kubernetes production systems, and managed CI-backed databases and ORM schemas for robust backend services. A long-time front-end contributor to well-known projects like p5.js and the Coding Train archive, Dusk improves documentation, examples, and accessibility to help others learn and create. Comfortable with both code and craft, they pair scripting and distributed training expertise with practical tool skills from shop work to city park maintenance. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, they bring a pragmatic, community-minded approach and an appetite for sustainable, elegant solutions. Outside work they tinker with espresso, indie web projects, and a small vegetable garden—small details that reflect a maker’s attention to craft.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
CodingTrain/website-archive
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
Archive of the Coding Train website (first version)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:90 reviews, 189 commits, 506 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dusk primarily contributed to the Coding Train website archive, focusing on adding new content related to "Coding in the Cabana" and updating existing pages. Their work involved modifying the navigation, adding p5.js code for a visual project, and adding new projects to the YAML testing suite. They demonstrated an ability to integrate projects within the Jekyll-based website structure, as well as update the website's styling and layout.
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processing/p5.js
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. http://twitter.com/p5xjs —
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dusk primarily focused on updating and improving examples within the p5.js library's documentation. They addressed and fixed issues with examples, particularly those related to image manipulation and display. Their contributions involved modifying existing code examples and correcting documentation to enhance clarity and usability for users of the p5.js library. They added and tested unit tests for the arc and ellipse methods.
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