Jason Hutchens

Jason Hutchens

Staff Engineer, Technical Leader & AI Researcher

Ruby Python C Rust TypeScript AI/ML System Architecture Game Design

Three decades building language models and AI systems, from winning the Loebner Prize in the 1990s to developing LLM-powered products today. I love learning new things and explaining them to others, and I'm passionate about developer experience and shipping quality software.

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Perth, Western Australia · Remote-first

Recent Work

Things I've been building lately.

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Git Lineage

Realtime git blame history.

Git Lineage brings the time-lapse view from Perforce’s P4V to git. Drag a scrubber along a file’s timeline and watch it change, commit by commit, with every line coloured by how recently it changed and deleted lines fading out as ghosts. It’s …

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Achievements

Loebner Prize. Won the 1996 Loebner AI Prize for best conversational AI.
Research. Papers at ACL and in IEEE Transactions, and an invited chapter in Parsing the Turing Test.
Games. Built the scripting system for Black & White and led AI for L.A. Noire.
International Media. Led an AI project featured in New Scientist, Wired and the NYT.
Mentoring. Hired and mentored AI and engineering teams, and led a fully remote team of up to a dozen.
$100M Acquisition. Led R&D and development at a company later acquired for $100M.

Career

Currently a Staff Engineer at Valiant Finance, working remotely from Perth.

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2022 - Present
Staff Engineer
Valiant Finance Pty. Ltd.
2015 - 2022
Lead Engineer / CTO
Robots+Rockets / GroupFire LLC
2011 - 2015
Head of Development / R&D
Agworld Pty. Ltd.
2004 - 2007
AI Team Lead
Team Bondi (L.A. Noire)
2000 - 2001
Chief Scientist
Artificial Intelligence
1999 - 2000
Programmer
Lionhead Studios (Black & White)
PhD (ABD)
The University of Western Australia · 1995 - 1999
Developed a sophisticated predictive small language model in C.
Bachelor of Engineering (IT)
The University of Western Australia · 1991 - 1994
Achieved straight A+ grades in final year.

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