Nader Alfares
Co-Founder & Developer at Penn State University
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNader Alfares is a founder-engineer and PhD-level computer scientist with nine years of experience building end-to-end digital products and cloud-native systems. As Co-Founder and Developer at Nuntii, he leads full-stack engineering across web, mobile, and cloud while translating business requirements into scalable architectures and production-grade deployments. His research and teaching at Penn State bridge machine learning (clustering, contrastive learning, LLM fine-tuning) and cloud resource optimization, giving him a rare blend of theoretical depth and practical systems expertise. He has shipped ML-enabled backends and CLI/REST tools in industry roles and previously cofounded a materials-and-apparel tech brand, demonstrating entrepreneurial range beyond software. Known for working with foundation models like FLAN-T5 and LLaMA and for cloud performance benchmarking, he combines academic rigor with hands-on delivery to move models into reliable, cost-efficient production.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Marketing for International Professionals (MIP), Marketing for International Professionals (MIP) at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Penn State University
Arabic, Tagalog, English
Github Skills (4)
automation1
python1
fig1
python-scripts1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
naderalfares/naderalfares.github.io
Dec 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
CMPSC-475/SampleCodeSpring2023
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:10 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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