Neil Mehta
AI Runtime Engineer at LM Studio
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Mehta is an AI Runtime Engineer based in New York with two years of professional software engineering experience and a background in chemical engineering from Cornell. He transitioned from low-latency trading firms like Tower Research Capital and Quantlab to LM Studio, bringing expertise in performance-sensitive systems and production-grade runtime engineering for AI. His experience spans core software development in high-frequency contexts and building reliable infrastructure that supports demanding compute workloads. At LM Studio he focuses on making model runtimes efficient and usable, blending low-level systems thinking with modern ML deployment needs. An early career foundation in chemical engineering and laboratory research gives him a practical, experimental approach to problem solving that complements his software craftsmanship. Active on GitHub as part of the LM Studio ecosystem, he stays engaged with tooling and runtime improvements that bridge research and production.
1 year of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Chemical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (27)
json10
llama10
llm10
nodejs10
apple-silicon9
python9
regex9
typescript9
symbolic-ai9
prompt-engineering9
bit8
generative-ai8
vision-framework8
8-bit6
vision-transformer5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lmstudio-ai/mlx-engine
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Apple MLX engine for LM Studio
Contributions:32 reviews, 68 PRs, 52 pushes in 5 months
mlxpython
yagil/llama-stack
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Composable building blocks to build Llama Apps
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 11 days
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