James Kunstle
Research Fellow at Fred Hutch
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Kunstle is a machine learning engineer and research fellow with six years of experience building and scaling LLM and AI systems across industry and academia. Based in Seattle, he has led work at Red Hat on InstructLab and distributed LLM training, shifted into agentic systems optimization at Not Diamond, and now trains genomic diffusion transformer models at Fred Hutch. He combines production-focused engineering (performance, scalability, RPM tooling) with hands-on research in adversarial examples and genomics, and has taught software engineering and CS courses at Boston University. Notably, his background bridges open-source infrastructure and cutting-edge model alignment, reflecting a knack for turning research techniques into deployable systems.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Boston University
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Github Skills (107)
plotly-dash10
dashboard10
python10
charting10
no-javascript10
visualizations10
serve10
flask10
javascript10
data-visualization10
plotly10
julia10
facade10
jupyter10
data-science10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JamesKunstle/8Knot
May 2022 - Apr 2024
Dash app in development to serve Project Sandiego visualizations.
Contributions:1 PR, 443 pushes, 201 branches in 1 year 11 months
dashservedash-appsandiegoplotly-dash
JamesKunstle/training
May 2024 - Mar 2025
standalone deepspeed backend
Contributions:96 pushes, 19 branches in 9 months
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