hey, i'm christy 👋
A software engineer and open-source advocate specialized in building highly performant distributed systems. Currently, I lead AI and Backend at Appwrite, an open source developer platform with over 51K stars on GitHub.
My role involves architecting scalable cloud systems, driving key engineering initiatives and mentoring a global community of developers. I also have a strong background in AI and Machine Learning, holding a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence. Previously, I've worked with leading companies like Intuit and Samsung Research.
Work Experience
Head of Engineering
Nov. 2021 - Present
Technical Advisor
Jan. 2023 - Present
Software Engineer
Aug. 2020 - May 2021
Research Intern
May 2019 - Jul. 2019
Founding Research Engineer
Jul. 2017 - Aug. 2018
Education
Master's in AI & Machine Learning
Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2025
Bachelor's in Computer Science
Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2020
Recent Posts
Flash Attention - Breaking the Memory Wall
KV Caching - Making Transformers Actually Fast
Attention Is All You Need - A Visual Story
Language Modeling & Recurrent Networks
Craft
Regularization & Stability - Training Networks That Generalize
Optimizers & Training - Making Neural Networks Learn Faster
Deep Learning from First Principles
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PG 101 - Building Postgres Extensions
