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ML and Blockchain Engineer with 25+ years of development experience. She has built a variety of machine learning models for image, music, voice, and text generation. She is a member of the Active Inference Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board, member of Celo Network’s Climate Collective, co-leader of KERNEL’s Regeneration Guild and an active contributor to two decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs): ReFi DAO for regenerative climate projects, pr1s0n art for inmate art, and as a peer mentor for Gitcoin KERNEL.
Education
1995 “B.S. Engineering, Human/Computer Interface Design” Stanford University
1995 “B.A. Studio Art” Stanford University
2018 “Deep Learning Specialization” Coursera (five courses)
2018 “Specialist Certification in Creative Applications of Deep Learning with Tensorflow” Kadenze (three courses)
2021 KERNEL Block II Fellow
2023 “Mathematics for Machine Learning” Coursera (three courses)
2023 Starknet Basecamp, Cohort 4
2023 Active Inference Textbook Group, Cohort 4
Talks and Poster Presentations
2020 “Indigenous Machine Learning”. Natives in Technology Conference
2020 Co-organizer of NeurIPS Machine Learning for Creativity and Design
2019 “AI Art”. AI Salon, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
2019 “Generative Art with GANs”. Santa Fe Artificial Intelligence/Robotics Meetup
2018 Holly Grimm. “Training on Art Composition Attributes to Influence CycleGAN Art Generation”. Poster Presentation at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design http://www.aiartonline.com/art/holly-grimm/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07710
Employment
Sustia LLC, remote 2024 – present
Blockchain and ML Developer
- Rust, Solidity, SurrealDB
Algovera, remote 2023 – 2024
Machine Learning Engineer
- Prompt and Context Engineering for LLMs
- Langchain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel
- Python, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes
Astral Protocol, remote 2021 – 2022
Project Manager and Developer, Kolektivo Curaçao
- Geospatial Contracts and Tools for Web3 GeoNFTs
- Solidity, Typescript, QGIS, IPFS, Leaflet
Project Manager and Developer, MRV Collective
- Spatial Data Registry for MRV Providers
- Solidity, MongoDB
Project Manager and Developer, dClimate
- Spatial Data Registry for weather data
- Juno/Cosmos, Rust, MongoDB
Sustia LLC, remote 2020 – 2021
Project Manager and Developer, Questionator, Humanity and AI Conference
- GPT-3 Summarizer and Question Generator
- Real-time Speech to Text
- Angular, Python, Express/MongoDB
Project Manager and Developer, Imagen
- GPT-2 Fine-tuning on poetry dataset
- AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Angular
Adecco, remote 2019 – 2020
Creative Technologist at Google Artists + Machine Intelligence
- Worked with five artists to apply machine learning in their art practice
- Trained the following models: StyleGAN2, GPT-2, BERT, Tacotron2, Parallel WaveGAN
- Python, Tensorflow, Tensorflow JS, Angular
OpenAI, San Francisco, CA, 2018
OpenAI Scholar
- Deep-dive into Reinforcement Learning
- AI art generator using art composition attributes neural network and CycleGAN
- Python, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenAI Gym, MuJoCo, AWS EC2 and S3
(via Sustia LLC) Healthy Native Communities, Shiprock, NM 2003 – 2017
Software Engineer
- Developed a custom web application for Native American health coordinators to share updates on health activities. English and French language support
- Java, Spring Framework, MySQL, Javascript, Solr Search, Selenium Testing, Google Maps
- First version in 2003, completed major upgrades in 2005 and 2008
(via Sustia LLC) OpenMake Software, Cerrillos, NM 2012 – 2013
Software Engineer
- Distributed software build and workflow management system implementing remote command execution and event correlation
- Java, Spring Framework, Spring Integration, RabbitMQ, Oracle, AngularJS
(via Sustia LLC) AmbientId, Gig Harbor, WA 2010 – 2012
Software Engineer
- Medical clinic data collection and graphical charting/reporting system
- Java, Spring Framework, MySQL, Javascript, JMS/Spring Integration
Youtility Software, Vancouver, BC 2006 – 2008
Software Engineer
- A custom web application to support OpenID requests and user profile management for a Secure OpenID provider
- Java, Spring Framework, MySQL, Javascript, Web Services
Homeseekers, Albuquerque, NM 2000 – 2001
Software Engineer
- Developed a commercial web-database application for the on-line delivery of real estate information
- Java, MS SQL Server
Photon Research, Albuquerque, NM 1998 – 2000
Software Engineer
- Developed a commercial web-database application for the automated warehousing and on-line delivery of remotely sensed geospatial imagery
- Java, C++, MS SQL Server
Articles
2019 The Soul of the New Machines Vasari21
2018 This AI system can adjust the contrast, size, and shape of images VentureBeat
2018 An Interview with Holly Grimm, Tensorflow Specialist Kadenze