Austin Peterson

CTO · ML infrastructure · feature stores

Axis Ops

Waterloo, ON · ET (UTC-5)

12+ years experience

Queen's University

English

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CTO at Axis Ops, focused on ML infrastructure. Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 26% in two quarters. Before that: EY and Sun Life. I write a small newsletter about ML infrastructure.

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feature storesKubeflowCUDARayPyTorch

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for an operations co-founder for localisation for farmer cooperatives

The idea: Looking for an operations co-founder for localisation for farmer cooperatives
Stage: Prototype
I bring: 12 years in ML infrastructure
Looking for: Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment: Part-time to start
Location: Waterloo or remote

I bring 27 years of ML infrastructure (currently Axis Ops). Ideally you've led a design team. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Waterloo, ONpytorchkubeflowray

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CTO
Sep 2023 - Present
Axis Ops · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Waterloo, ON
- Shipped 28 launches on the ML platform team without a rollback.
- Moved 92% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
ML Engineer
May 2022 - Sep 2023
EY · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Waterloo, ON
- Taught SQL to 41 non-analysts.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Engineering Manager
Feb 2021 - May 2022
Sun Life · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Waterloo, ON
- Cut p99 latency on the ML platform services from 766ms to 103ms.
ML Engineer
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Wealthsimple · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Waterloo, ON
- Taught SQL to 80 non-analysts.
Senior Engineering Manager
Oct 2014 - Mar 2017
Meta · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Waterloo, ON
- Wrote the PyTorch service that now handles 77 million requests a day.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 4.

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Education

Queen's University
BCom, Electrical Engineering
1995 - 1999

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