Jimmy Whitaker
Forward Deployed Engineer at Baseten
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Whitaker is a machine learning engineer and strategist with 11 years of experience building production-ready AI systems and developer-focused platforms. He has led R&D and product efforts from startups to enterprise—most recently driving a Kubernetes-based inference platform and low-code PCAI workflows at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and now shaping deployments as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Baseten. His background spans speech recognition, NLP, and MLOps, with hands-on delivery of a v1.0 inference system in six months and a strong emphasis on data versioning, reproducibility, and practical prototyping for generative AI. An Oxford MSc graduate and author of a Springer book on deep learning for NLP and speech, he combines academic rigor with applied engineering and public-facing thought leadership. Less obvious: he pairs systems-level architecture with a product-minded focus on developer experience, turning research prototypes into usable workflows that accelerate adoption.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University of OxfordBachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Christian Brothers University
Github Skills (86)
annotations10
backend10
big-data10
pipeline10
pachyderm10
versioning10
rapid-prototyping10
kubernetes10
data-science10
distributed-systems10
analytics10
data-versioning10
go10
data-analysis10
breast-cancer10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JimmyWhitaker/pach_clearml
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
pachyderm/pachyderm-gha
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Pachyderm pipeline example that automatically updates with GitHub Actions
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 6 months
pachydermpipelineupdatesci-cddata-provenance
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