Evan Owen ulmentflam

Hey, I'm Evan

CTO & Co-Founder at QWERKY AI, where I build novel LLM architectures from CUDA kernels to production inference. Currently pursuing my MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech while shipping AI systems at scale. Over my career I've accumulated 10+ years of experience, shipped 15+ production apps, led teams of 20+ engineers, and have a pending LLM patent.

What I'm Working On

LLM Architecture Research -- Novel attention mechanisms with custom CUDA implementations
State Space Models -- Contributing Mamba SSM architectures to Modular's MAX framework in Mojo
QDistill -- Transforming transformer layers to state space layers for 4x throughput and 1M token context lengths
Open Source -- Kernels for selective scan, causal conv1d, and RMSNorm in the Modular ecosystem

Tech Stack

Languages

AI / ML

Infrastructure

Featured Work

Modular MAX Framework Mamba SSM architecture with custom selective scan, causal conv1d, and RMSNorm kernels in Mojo	Pulley iOS Maps-style drawer library with 2k+ stars, created at 52 Inc.
QWERKY AI Novel LLM architectures with a pending patent. QDistill: 4x throughput, 1M token context lengths.	key-gen BIP-0044 compatible multi-blockchain key generator
Robot2815 -- FIRST Robotics Competition team code