Ethan Reid
Member Of Technical Staff at Moondream AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Reid is a Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco with 11 years of software engineering experience bridging AI, quantitative engineering, and fintech. He has built and fine-tuned vision-language models (contributing sampling strategies and architecture tweaks to the moondream project) while also delivering quantitative tooling for supply & trading optimization at Chevron. Comfortable across ML model engineering and production software, he brings practical expertise in dataset creation, heuristic optimization, and systems that scale to real-world finance use cases. A Cal Poly graduate with a quantitative economics and CS background, Ethan pairs rigorous analytics with hands-on coding, often surfacing pragmatic model and sampling improvements that accelerate fine-tuning and deployment.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Monte Vista High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Economics with a focus on Quantitative Analysis. Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Economics with a focus on Quantitative Analysis. Computer Science at Cal Poly Orfalea College of Business
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Github Skills (12)
transformers10
computer-vision10
pytorch10
parameter-tuning10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
python10
fine-tuning10
objective-c6
game-loop6
cgpoint6
nstimer6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vikhyat/moondream
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
tiny vision language model
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the development and fine-tuning of the "moondream" vision language model. Their commits include implementing a "min-p" sampler and greedy sampling strategies, as well as configuring the model's architecture, including adding an `ff_dim` parameter to the text model. Furthermore, the user worked on finetuning the model including finetuning the region decoder.
EthanReid/unity-scripts
Sep 2014 - Jul 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 6 years 10 months
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