Zach Nagengast
Head Of Software at Indie Ridge
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Nagengast is a Head of Software with 12 years of experience building and optimizing AI/ML systems for edge devices from Santa Monica. Currently leading software at Argmax, he focuses on squeezing large foundation models onto constrained hardware and shipping production-ready on-device ML. He co-founded and scaled an e-commerce business from $500 to over $1M annual revenue, bringing product and growth intuition to technical leadership. Prior roles span mobile engineering and management at Wheels and Wag, where he drove growth-focused iOS development and cross-functional teams through acquisition and public exits. An active open-source contributor, Zach has helped integrate Stable Diffusion pipelines into Apple Core ML for Apple Silicon, adding denoised latents and SDXL/SD3 support to improve on-device previews and decoding. He combines mechanical engineering roots with hands-on mobile and ML engineering, often tackling problems across hardware, firmware, and product.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoPaso Robles High School
Github Skills (8)
machine-learning10
swift10
stable-diffusion10
coreml10
python9
computer-vision8
pytorch8
mlops7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apple/ml-stable-diffusion
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 9 PRs, 64 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of the Stable Diffusion pipeline within the repository, focusing on optimizing the integration of Core ML on Apple Silicon. They added support for denoised latent images, which improved progress updates and previews. They also refactored the pipeline to send denoised latents to the final decoder and added support for the SDXL refiner. Furthermore, the user integrated the SD3 pipeline.
silicondeep-learningapple-siliconmachine-learningcoreml
LAION-AI/Discord-Scrapers
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
Implementation of a discord channel scraper to generate datasets.
Contributions:16 reviews, 9 PRs, 52 pushes in 8 months
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