Kaiser Pister
Chief Technology Officer at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolKaiser Pister is a CTO and founder with 11 years of experience building and shipping generative AI products and research-driven engineering teams. He combines academic rigor—teaching Applied LLMs and programming languages theory at UW–Madison—with hands-on startup execution, from co-founding Audiodub (2M daily impressions, state-of-the-art Hebrew TTS) to leading engineering at Encounter AI and ALL3D. His work spans model fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, and production ML systems, and he holds a patent related to conversational AI in point-of-sale. Known for translating research into product (e.g., reimplementing LayoutLMv3 and improving protein NER models), he also advises startups and mentors students, achieving a 99% course approval rating. Based in Madison, WI, he blends applied research, teaching, and product strategy to help teams take novel generative-model ideas into production.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Latin, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
117reputation
6kreached
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Github Skills (178)
emoji10
vector-database10
progress-bar10
fine-tuning10
gpt10
application10
formatting10
llm10
data-structures10
syntax-highlighting10
markdown9
pythonic9
vision-framework9
interactive9
plotly9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PLSysSec/go2wrk
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:61 commits, 12 PRs, 48 pushes in 6 months
benchmarkgolangduty
kpister/kaiser.cloud
Sep 2017 - Sep 2022
My personal website
Contributions:3 PRs, 30 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years
reactnextjs
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