Kevin Henner
Independent Full Stack ML Engineer at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Henner is an independent full-stack ML engineer with 12 years of software experience and four years focused on taking ML and NLP projects from zero to one, shipping production apps that combine in-house models and leading LLMs. He’s comfortable starting from a blank slate—no data, repo, or cloud account—and rapidly builds end-to-end systems using PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, FastAPI, React, and Pulumi, plus MLOps tooling like SageMaker and Weights & Biases. As a founding ML engineer at Contenda and prior NLP roles, he led rigorous CI/CD and testing practices while integrating multi-generation LLM prompting and model chaining into user-facing products. His background in computational linguistics and anthropology informs a thoughtful approach to which cognitive tasks should be offloaded to technology and how to surface model insights effectively to users. Now operating solo on a stealth project in Seattle, he combines product sensibility with a historian’s attention to how tools reshape skills and knowledge.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computational Linguistics Computational Linguistics, Master of Science in Computational Linguistics Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonUniversity of California, San DiegoSummer Fellowship, Summer Fellowship at University of Michigan - School of InformationBA Anthropology, BA Anthropology at Reed College
tok pisin, Russian, French
Github Skills (158)
bots10
slideshow10
botkit10
dialogue-systems10
vms10
markdown10
presenter10
quest10
puppet10
centos10
voice10
interactive10
conversational-ai10
dialogflow10
versioning10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kjhenner/pltraining-learning
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:121 pushes, 92 branches in 1 year 10 months
kjhenner/puppet-quest-guide
Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:128 pushes, 134 branches in 2 years 1 month
questpuppet
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