Jon Durbin
Independent AI Researcher at Self-employed
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Durbin is an independent AI researcher and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native, HIPAA-compliant SaaS and security-focused systems. He has led principal engineering work at startups and enterprise teams, architecting distributed EHR platforms, containerized ML workflows that "ship code to data," and production ETL and web API stacks across AWS, Kubernetes, and serverless tooling. Jon’s background spans threat protection, machine learning classification, and scalable infrastructure—often turning research prototypes into robust, audit-ready services. Based in the Detroit metro area, he combines hands-on implementation with team training and infrastructure selection, and quietly excels at integrating research-grade ML into regulated production environments.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Michigan-Flint
Github Skills (43)
llama10
inference10
large-language-models10
reinforcement-learning10
omega10
llm10
cuda10
chatbot10
minimax10
titanium9
multimodal9
language-model9
leaderboard9
glm9
wan9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jondurbin/qlora
Jun 2023 - Apr 2024
QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
Contributions:9 PRs, 118 pushes, 13 branches in 10 months
fine-tuning
chutesai/chutes-api
Nov 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:5 reviews, 72 PRs, 970 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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