Devin Gonier

Principal Engineer & AI Researcher

817-925-4989
Denver, CO

summary.md

Seasoned Principal AI Research Engineer and Subject Matter Expert in LLMs overseeing IRAD LLM development. Over 8 years of groundbreaking AI leadership, co‑founder of WageUp and DebaterHub. Specialized in NLP, retrieval‑augmented generation, multi‑agent frameworks, and scalable AWS architectures. NSF SBIR awardee with support from OpenAI and AWS grants. Patented innovator in AI‑driven education and performance management.

research_interests.md

  • multi_agent_systems for Reasoning and Debate
  • Advanced RAG.optimizeRetrieval() Techniques
  • knowledge_graphs and Graph-Based Learning
  • RL.Optimization() for LLM Alignment
  • Architectures for specialized_models.collaborate()

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Principal Engineer R&D for LLMs (SME)

Arka - Advanced AI / Space Comms Solutions for DoD
Denver Jul 2024 - Present
  • Led IRAD.lead() for AI Agents & LLMs at Arka
  • MLOps.deploy(gpu_cluster) for Internal Infrastructure
  • Code Assistant and proposal.generate() Apps
  • Advanced LLM integrated DoD applications

Co‑Founder & AI Researcher

DebaterHub
Denver 2020 - Present
  • Built Core AI.enableLMS() Architectures
  • Designed Internal compute_cluster for LLM Agents
  • NSF.funded() Prototyped / Research AI Debate Agents

Co‑Founder & CTO

WageUp
Denver 2016 - Present
  • Led Dev of patents.count(4) on AI Applications
  • Built AI.noCode() Solution for Business Training
  • managed.deploy(enterprise_scale) Applications

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M.S. in Machine_Learning

Columbia University
New York, NY Jun 2023
  • Relevant Coursework: NLP, Reinforcement_Learning, AI_Systems.advanced()

publications.txt

Cross Fertilizing Empathy from Brain to Machine as a Value Alignment Strategy. ArXiv preprint 2312.07579.

Augmented Debate‑Centered Instruction: A Novel Research Agenda for Responsible AI Integration in Education. AAAI 2024.

Developing and Measuring AI Pluralism: Strategies, Milestones, and Innovative Approaches. NCA Panel, Nov 2024.

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Artificial Intelligence Coach for Providing Customer Service Feedback to Employees (18/440,051)

Performance Evaluation Systems and Methods (17/577,109; 16/716,109; 18/482,181)

Machine‑Learning Architecture for an Artificial Intelligence Bot (63/555,980)

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Technical Skills

Languages & Frameworks

Javascript Typescript NodeJS Python GraphQL bash SQL/DynamoDB/GraphQL VueJS FastApi/Django/Flask/Express

AI & Machine Learning

LLM Fine-Tune Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence GenAI RAG NLP Neural Networks Agent AI TensorFlow/PyTorch

DevOps & Infrastructure

AWS Amplify Serverless Kubernetes Docker AWS DevOps MySQL/DynamoDB Terraform microservices