Philip Stevens
Founder & Principal Consultant at Baseweight
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Stevens is a founder and principal consultant with 13 years of experience building production ML systems and a 15-year track record in applied machine learning, specializing in practical deployments like audience targeting at Quantcast and production personalization at Agoda. He helps teams diagnose problems before picking an AI technique, then delivers end-to-end artifacts clients can own—weights, training recipes, eval suites, and deployment configs—to avoid vendor lock-in. His work spans RAG pipelines, LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, evaluation-driven serving optimizations, and instrumentation for retrieval quality and regression gating. Philip blends startup speed with enterprise rigor, having prevented production regressions through spec-driven tests and improved serving efficiency via profiling and quantization. An active tinkerer in embedded/IoT tooling, he maintains an Arduino FreeRTOS library that showcases hands-on systems engineering beyond pure ML. Based in Greater Vancouver, he pairs rigorous academic foundations in logic and computation with a pragmatic, diagnostics-first approach to AI adoption.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (12)
rt10
freertos10
embedded10
rtos10
sys10
arduino10
avr9
3d-models6
oscilloscope6
printing6
atmel6
atmega6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
feilipu/Arduino_FreeRTOS_Library
Nov 2015 - Sep 2022
A FreeRTOS Library for all Arduino ATmega Devices (Uno R3, Leonardo, Mega, etc).
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:99 releases, 1 review, 251 commits in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Philip's commits primarily focus on integrating and utilizing the FreeRTOS real-time operating system within an Arduino environment. They added core FreeRTOS include files, modified existing files to include the correct FreeRTOS headers, and adapted the project for use with the Arduino platform. Furthermore, they added example code demonstrating FreeRTOS tasks and inter-task communication using a mutex semaphore and added a basic Blink & AnalogRead example.
avrleonardounobluepillarduino
feilipu/NASCOM_BASIC_4.7
Nov 2016 - Aug 2022
NASCOM ROM BASIC Version 4.7 - (C) 1978 Microsoft
Contributions:12 releases, 320 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 9 months
rommicrosoft
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