cruge (matt)
SF
About
AI/ML engineer and open source contributor building autonomous systems, inference infrastructure, and agentic tooling. Previously deep in network infrastructure and crypto protocols. Shipping models to production, not papers.
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Experience
IndependentAI/ML Engineer
Consulting on inference infrastructure and agentic systems for early-stage startups. Building open source multi-agent frameworks, fine-tuning domain-specific models, and advising on GPU cluster architecture and MLOps pipelines.
Sep 2025 to Present — SF
Lattice ProtocolFounding Engineer
Built on-chain ML verification and decentralized inference infrastructure. Designed smart contract systems for model attestation and proof-of-compute on Ethereum L2s. Shipped token economics and staking mechanisms for GPU providers.
Jan 2024 to Aug 2025 — SF / Remote
PeeringDBCore Contributor / Board
Maintained the open source database powering internet interconnection for 30,000+ networks. Built the REST API, automation tooling, and data validation systems used by every major network operator worldwide.
2014 to 2024 — SF
Skills
Python; PyTorch; LLM Fine-tuning; Multi-Agent Systems; Inference Infra; Solidity; Go
Community
e/acc; NANOG; Open-IX; Arctic Code Vault Contributor