John Berryman
AI Consultant at Arcturus Labs
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Berryman is an AI consultant and author with 13 years of experience building production-grade search and LLM applications, currently advising clients through Arcturus Labs and leading AI engineering at Tribe AI. He helped ship core search and ML products at GitHub—including contributions to Copilot and chat—specializing in prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, and productionization. His background spans search infrastructure, recommendation systems, and data engineering at companies like Eventbrite and VividCortex, where he moved large-scale search stacks and built personalization pipelines. Author of two books on prompt engineering and search, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline (M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech) with practical product sensibility for real user needs. Notably, he blends deep academic rigor from early research on safety and neural methods with hands-on experience moving prototypes into high-usage production systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Aerospace Engineering, Masters, Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech
Japanese
Github Skills (36)
search-engine10
relevance10
background-sync10
java10
elasticsearch10
opensearch9
solr9
detector9
restful9
classifier8
cpython8
language-detection7
micropython7
background-thread7
django7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JnBrymn/BestTimeToUseStackExchange
Feb 2013 - Apr 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes in 8 years 3 months
o19s/StackExchangeSolrIndexing
Nov 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 3 months
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