A small studio with one principle.

My name is Chris. I'm a machine learning engineer and a writer, and LibriLabs is what I do now.

I came to engineering through language, not the other way around. Books got me first — novels, poetry, the way a sentence can hold a whole interior life if it's built right. Mathematics arrived later, then code, then machine learning specifically. They feel less separate than people sometimes describe them. A poem and a model are both arrangements of small parts that, when the arrangement is right, produce something nobody put in directly.

For a while I worked inside larger systems where the kind of work I wanted to be doing — building tools that handed capability back to a person — kept getting deferred. Eventually I wanted to find out what it looked like when that wasn't the deferred work.

LibriLabs is the version where the person using the product is the person it's built for, and the company is small enough that decisions are made by someone you can email.

Outside the work I spend a lot of time outdoors. I read more than I publish. I'm trying to learn another language at a pace I keep promising myself to stick to. I'm drawn to tools that take care of the boring layer so people can spend their attention on the layer that matters.

If you want to ask me something, the email at the bottom of every page goes to me directly.