Jason Chitla

prev. fintech (defi) co-founder; enjoys chaos and novelty

• prev. engineering @ Capital One, Fidelity
• Won 2 international blockchain hackathons (one, two)
• Co-founded fintech startup
• Recently @ Stealth AI BioTech Startup
  • Working with: Protein Folding Transformer-based models, Inverse Folding Sequence Design models, Generative Diffusion models for Structure generation/Binder design, and Protein Language Models
  • Built from scratch, large-scale ML inference and training pipelines (Azure/GCP) using ML frameworks
  • Built Data transformation pipelines and performed analysis on different datasets
  • Containerization - Created containers (Docker) for different models and different machines
  • Wrote many Unix/bash scripts, and created unit tests for automated pipelines

Degrees: B.S. Computer Science @ NCSU, M.S. Financial Mathematics @ NCSU

Interested in: AGI, Blockchain, Biological Programming, Synthetic Biology, AI for Code generation

• Very strong computer science skills. I've been coding since I was 10. However, I believe the value is not in skills specifically, but in the domain knowledge. What is truly invaluable is gaining domain knowledge, relating concepts to each other across fields, and solving problems. (Strong motivation for me to work in an academic lab surrounded by ante-disciplinary scientists)
• I love teaching. Teaching helps me learn too! Here is an example of myself explaining Transformers (https://youtu.be/Hs-p3bj-kg0) to engineers getting started in the space.

Links

• GitHub: @jasonchitla
• LinkedIn: @jasonchitla
• Twitter: @jasonchitla
• Email: jasonchitla@gmail.com
• Favorite poem: If— by Rudyard Kipling