I'm Laren, a software engineer at Pacific Northwest National Lab, working in the Research Computing directorate on the AI/ML Solutions team. I graduated from Texas A&M in 2024, earning a MS in computer science under Dr. James Caverlee. Prior to that, I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, majoring in Chemistry with the Elements of Computing certificate.
I do many things, but here are the primary areas I work on:
- Scientific software packaging, build systems, and containerization
- HPC system administration
- MLOps
- LLM scaling
- Information retrieval
Fun Stuff:
- 📫: [email protected]
- 🌱 I’m currently learning: CUDA
- 😄 Pronouns: he/him
- 💬 Ask me about: BM25
- ⚡ Fun fact: I DJ and collect vinyl records.
