Victor May
Research Engineer, AIA Labs at ontocord.ai
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor May is a research engineer and machine learning leader with 10+ years building end-to-end ML systems across NLP, recommender systems, and computer vision, now working at AIA Labs within Bridgewater Associates. He combines hands-on model research and prototyping with production-grade MLOps and API/service architecture, having shipped transformer-based NLP pipelines, real-time recommenders, and CUDA-optimized inference for production traffic. Victor has led and scaled teams—supervising senior data scientists, designing hiring funnels, and onboarding dozens of candidates—while aligning stakeholders on complex product KPIs and roadmaps. His background includes developer-facing AI tooling work inside Google’s Gemini ecosystem and front-end/full-stack contributions to the notable Open-Assistant project, showing breadth from low-level C++ vision code to Next.js UI work. He holds an M.Sc. in applied mathematics with IEEE-published research in image processing, reflecting a rigorous analytical foundation that informs pragmatic system design. Known for bridging research and product, he often surfaces unexpected efficiency gains (e.g., 3x compute reduction via CUDA optimization) when moving models to production.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Applied Mathematics, Master’s Degree, Applied Mathematics at Tel Aviv UniversityB.Sc, Computer Sciences, Mathematics, B.Sc, Computer Sciences, Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University
Github Skills (11)
nextjs10
react10
python9
javascript9
machine-learning8
ai8
virtual-assistant7
language-model7
assistants7
vitual-assistant7
chatgpt6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 4 PRs in 10 days
Contributions summary:Victor primarily focused on front-end development, contributing to multiple UI-related pages, and tasks, including ranking prompts and replies. They also made changes to hooks and tasks which shows involvement in the application's core logic. The user's work involved modifying existing components and integrating them, indicating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and the technologies used, which include Next.js, and possibly backend integrations.
language-modelpythonpartyassistantchat
huu4ontocord/MDEL
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
Multi-Domain Expert Learning
Contributions:14 reviews, 37 PRs, 53 pushes in 9 months
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