Harrison Vanderbyl
Chief Technology Officer at RWKV Foundation
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHarrison Vanderbyl is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in New South Wales, Australia, with eight years of hands-on experience building web and AI-driven products. He currently leads technical strategy at Featherless AI while contributing to the RWKV Foundation’s steering committee, blending product-focused engineering with community-driven AI work. Previously he shipped production systems at Argenti and cut his teeth as a web developer at TECHIST, giving him end-to-end familiarity from front-end to infrastructure. Known for turning vague requirements into deliverable roadmaps, he balances rapid iteration with pragmatic architecture decisions. Though his public GitHub footprint is modest, his move into AI leadership signals a shift toward applied research and productionizing cutting-edge models. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prefers doing over talking, consistently pushing projects from prototype to production.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mullumbimby high school
Github Skills (76)
transformers10
sentence10
attention-mechanism10
mlops10
deep-learning10
embedding10
chatgpt10
lstm10
llmops10
xpu10
transformer10
gpt10
nlp10
chatbot10
llama10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
harrisonvanderbyl/rwkv-cpp-accelerated
Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
A torchless, c++ rwkv implementation using 8bit quantization, written in cuda/hip/vulkan for maximum compatibility and minimum dependencies
Contributions:8 reviews, 14 PRs, 89 pushes in 9 months
harrisonvanderbyl/ravenbot-ai
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 429 commits, 7 PRs in 3 months
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