Sven Cattell
Founder, CEO at nbhd.ai
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolSven Cattell is a founder and CEO with nine years of experience applying deep technical research to production-grade ML systems, currently bringing custom C-based tools for convolutional neural network decision-boundary analysis into TensorFlow. His background spans academic rigor—a PhD in Mathematics and postdoctoral work on anomaly detection at Johns Hopkins—to hands-on engineering roles where he optimized ETL and clustering pipelines at Elastic and Endgame for 50–100x performance gains. He combines low-level systems work (C, Rust contributions to capnproto-rust) with cloud-native data engineering (AWS Batch, ECR, protobufs) to deliver reliable, high-throughput ML infrastructure. Notably, he developed a novel class detector that isolates previously unseen inputs from known classes, and is integrating that capability as TF ops to enable final-stage production deployment.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBA with Distintion, Mathematics, BA with Distintion, Mathematics at Boston University
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Github Skills (11)
memory-management10
proto10
rust10
capnproto10
data-structure9
data-structures9
performance-optimization8
json6
httparty6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
capnproto/capnproto-rust
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Cap'n Proto for Rust
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 27 days
Contributions summary:Sven focused on improving the Rust implementation of Cap'n Proto. They implemented the `to_slice` method for primitive lists to enable direct access to the underlying data. They fixed a count error in the code. Furthermore, they addressed a potential memory layout inconsistency and schema migration issues. The user also worked on integrating buffer segments to support long-term memory-mapped files.
rustcapprotoprotobuf
aivillage/llm_router
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
A method of remotely hosting a variety of LLMs
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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