Happy Accidents
Open-source generative AI image creation and editing app. Built a distributed GPU cluster for inference and training. 150K+ users from word-of-mouth alone.
Software Engineer & Builder.
Architecting ML systems and distributed platforms at world-class startups.
Some things I've done
2025
Created & Open-sourced DeepHat V1 — 7B Cybersecurity LLM
Smallest open-source model ever to score 5% on Cybench; beat GPT-4o-mini on code editing.
2020
Founded Landria — Acquired by Brex
Created Landria, an Enterprise AI search tool for corporate knowledge bases used by several publically traded companies before getting acquired by Brex.
2023
Happy Accidents
Generative AI image editing suite that was bootstrapped to >150K users entirely through word-of-mouth.
Where I've worked
Staff ML Engineer, Kindo
2024 — PRESCreated DeepHat V1, a SOTA 7B cybersecurity LLM. Architected the full post-training pipeline — data mix, evaluation, and distributed training infrastructure.
ML Architect, Redux Payments
2025 — PRESML payment retry optimization with XGBoost; +18% recovery on failed payments. Built a novel counterfactual evaluation framework.
Tech Lead, Valon
2021 — 2023Led the Mortgage Onboarding Platform. Scaled throughput 20× with >90% error reduction via automated DAG pipelines processing 40K+ monthly mortgages.
Technical Manager, Brex
2020 — 2021Managed the internal Developer Platform. Set OKRs, metrics, and roadmaps for 5 platform teams.
Senior Engineer, Twilio
2015 — 2018Built the core streaming pipeline for processing transactions via S3, Kafka, MySQL, and Spark. Powered usage-based billing and SOX compliance.
Personal Projects & Open Source
Landria (Acquired by Brex)
AI-powered chatbot and RAG tool for corporate knowledge bases. Acquired by Brex in 2020.
Compare
Free, open-source, fully-private in-browser web application to evaluate, compare, and share job offers.
Paul Revere
Award-winning Military Recall App chosen by SAIC for the Department of Defense — GPS tracking and alert capabilities for squad management.
Get in touch
I'm building silly robotics/AI/3D fabrication stuff for YouTube. If you're interested in collaborating, hit me up at devonperoutky@gmail.com
Links
Hobbies
3D Printing
Hiking
Woodworking
Boxing
Education
University of Virginia
B.S. in Computer Science
B.A. in Economics
Recognition
Department of Defense
2014
Brex Acquisition
Business Insider
&
TechCrunch
Feature
2020
150K+ Users
Happy Accidents
2023
DeepHat V1
Cybench SOTA (7B)
2025
Skillset
AI / ML
LLM Post-Training & Evaluation
Distributed GPU Training & Inference
RAG & Agentic Systems
XGBoost / Tabular ML
Backend
Distributed Systems
Python
Kafka
Spark
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
CI/CD