Machine Learning Engineer
Omar Sanseviero was the Chief Llama Officer and Head of Platform and Community at Hugging Face, leading the developer advocacy engineering, on-device, and moonshot teams. Omar has extensive engineering experience working at Google in Google Assistant and TensorFlow Graphics. Omar’s work at Hugging Face was at the intersection of open source, product, research, and technical communities. Pedro Cuenca is a Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face working on diffusion software, models, and applications. He has 20+ years of software development experience in fields like Internet applications (in Spain, he helped create the first interactive educational portal, the first book store, and the first free ISP) and, more recently, iOS. As a co-founder and CTO of LateNiteSoft, he worked on the technology behind Camera+, a successful iPhone photography app. He created deep-learning models for tasks such as photography enhancement and super-resolution. He was also involved in the development and operations behind dalle-mini. He brings a practical vision of integrating AI research into real-world services and the challenges and optimizations involved. Apolinário Passos is a Machine Learning Art Engineer at Hugging Face working across different teams on multiple machine learning for art and creativity use-cases. Apolinario has 10+ years of professional and artistic experience, alternating between holding art exhibitions, coding, and product management, having been a Head of Product in World Data Lab. Apolinario aims to ensure that the ML ecosystem supports and makes sense for artistic use cases.
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