Dylan Stein (he/him) is a CEO & Lead Engineer @ spice.cloud working on powering open source AI on commodity hardware.


B.S. in Computer Science

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC


spice.cloud

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Chief Executive Officer

| https://spice.cloud
April 2023 - Current
Create a distributed training and inference system based on at home commodity compute to create and use open source machine learning models. Also includes all responsibilities required to run the business, team, accounting, fundraising, etc.

Machine Learning Training Inference PyTorch LLMs Llama Stable Diffusion SDXL Diffusion Models Generative AI GitHub Actions PyPi Kubernetes K8s RabbitMQ AWS Django GraphQL Strawberry Stripe Daemons Windows WSL2

NALEJ

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Chief Product Officer

| https://www.nalej.com
March 2023 - April 2023
Government contracting with the USAF. Build Edge to Cloud Kubernetes capability to power the next generation of IoT for the tactical edge.

Tenstorrent

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Principal Software Engineer

| https://www.tenstorrent.com
June 2022 - January 2023
Create hardware management system that dynamically deploys Kubernetes clusters with attached proto-ASICs & RISC-V hardware to be used by Cloud customers for Machine Learning workloads and inference APIs. Create Component UI System and Central Auth Service for universal frontend experience. CLI tool for customer automation.

RISK-V ASIC Machine Learning MLOps macOS Kubernetes K8s Kubectl Traefik GraphQL Django Django Graphene Python NextJS React TypeScript Ansible Click Jenkins GitHub AWS EKS ECR RDS Postgres Aurora S3 HTML5 CSS3 poetry black npm Node Grafana Prometheus Loki

Apple

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Senior Software Engineer

| https://www.apple.com
August 2019 - June 2022
Architect, design, and deploy groundbreaking edge compute to interact with several thousand experimental hardware units. Create APIs, frontend, and CLI tooling to access and manage said devices over standard networking topologies and LTE.

Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) macOS Kubernetes K8s Kubectl Traefik GraphQL Django Django Graphene Python NextJS React TypeScript Ansible Click Jenkins GitHub Bazel AWS EKS ECR RDS Postgres Aurora S3 HTML5 CSS3 poetry black npm Node Grafana Prometheus

Apple

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Fullstack Web Developer

| https://www.apple.com
Nov 2018 - August 2019
Enabled immediate turn around for engineers to triage real time autonomy disengagements. Create fullstack web application to track uploads and monitor devices connected via LTE. Created robust daemon that lives on devices that obtains multi gigabyte disengagement data from ROTS systems and pushes that data to API for long term storage on S3.

Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) macOS Daemons Kubernetes K8s Kubectl Traefik Squid Proxy WebSockets Django Django REST Framework Python Create React App React TypeScript Ansible Click Jenkins GitHub Bazel AWS EKS ECR RDS Postgres Aurora S3 HTML5 CSS3 poetry black npm Node

BentoBox

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Fullstack Engineer

| https://www.getbento.com
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018

Stripe AWS EC2 RDS Postgres Route53 S3 CircleCI Ubuntu GitHub React React Router Redux EmberJS Django Django REST Framework Python Postgres jQuery JavaScript HTML5 CSS3 JIRA Google Maps OpenStreetMaps Shippo Ansible Jinja2 Webpack gulp pytest selenium

NCSU - OSCAR Labs

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Software Developer

| https://www.ncsu.edu
Aug 2014 - Dec 2016
Work in a small team environment developing applications for the State of NC and NCSU. In charge of creating requirement documentation, developing, testing, and deploying Django applications in on prem hardware. Communicate decisions to other engineers to meet goals, deadlines, and close production issues.

Ubuntu VMWare Vagrant Django Django REST Framework Python Postgres JavaScript HTML5 CSS3 Ansible

BoostOurTeam

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CTO

Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Facility development of BoostOurTeam, team based fundraising platform. Make infrastructure decisions in regards to stack and implementation. Serve as lead engineer and manager.

Material Design OpenShit Docker Stripe Django Django REST Framework Vue JavaScript HTML5 CSS3 Postgres BitBucket JIRA

IBM Open Source

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Team Lead

Jan 2016 - May 2016
Create addition to IBM Enterprise Exception Handler. Framework created to recognize exceptions using a Java class's Abstract Syntax Tree to standardize usage across all projects. Demo and theory presentations give for IBM Open Project and large scale conference.

Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) Java JazzHub

Sears Holdings

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Software Development Intern

| https://searsholdings.com
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Front end development for Sears Parts Direct Team. Determine complexity of pages aiming to improve packet transfer, client runtime, and server side load. Improve site flow and customer checkout.

Java Spring Handlebars JavaScript jQuery Angular Bootstrap SASS HTML5 CSS3 GitLab Adobe CQ

Principal Financial Group

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RIS Java Development Intern

| https://www.principal.com/
May 2013 - Aug 2015
Within Retirement and Investment Services, created Java web applications for assets under management participants to administer their company retirement plans. Translate data from Cobal systems to Java for usage on frontends. Team lead for PFG CodeJam multiple years where web apps, mobile apps, and small video games were created.

Confluence JIRA Agile Scrum Django Python IBM DB2 Java Cobal SQL (JDBC) Jenkins Maven SharePoint Business Objects Adaptive


Twitter

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GitHub

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AngelList

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Medium

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DEV

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