Eric Hartford
Research Scientist In Artificial Intelligence at Lazarus AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Hartford is a research scientist in artificial intelligence with 11 years of engineering experience building production systems and open-source language models from San Francisco. He blends deep applied research—fine-tuning models, curating datasets like leet10k, and engineering composable alignment frameworks—with a strong production background at companies including Microsoft, AWS, eBay, and recent AI startups. Eric led popular open-source releases (WizardLM, WizardVicuna, Alpaca1337 variants) and authored an influential “Uncensored Models” essay advocating for composable alignment. Equally comfortable in Python and JavaScript as in large-scale backend stacks, he bridges model research and application engineering to ship usable AI products. Known for collaborating across the open-source community, he’s currently developing larger uncensored models and a secret project that signals continued focus on transparent model alignment.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computing and Software Systems, Master of Science Computing and Software Systems at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Pacific Lutheran University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
language-model10
swagger10
material-ui10
to-do10
oas10
chat10
gpt4all10
visual-studio10
compression10
openapi10
webui10
swagger-ui10
api10
llmops10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
cognitivecomputations/dolphin-system-messages
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Dolphin System Messages
Contributions:6 reviews, 15 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cognitivecomputations/OpenChatML
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 7 months
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