Neil Mehta
ML Systems Software 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.
2 years 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 (37)
json10
language-model10
python10
apple-silicon10
vision-framework10
typescript10
regex10
llm-inference10
llm10
prompt-engineering10
symbolic-ai10
vision-transformer10
lm-studio10
nodejs10
cpp10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lmstudio-ai/mlx-engine
Oct 2024 - Jul 2026
LM Studio Apple MLX engine
Contributions:72 reviews, 109 PRs, 132 pushes in 1 year 9 months
lm-studiomlxpython
neilmehta24/mlx-vlm
Nov 2024 - May 2026
MLX-VLM is a package for running Vision LLMs locally on your Mac using MLX.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 5 months
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