Hi, I'm Ryan 👋
ML research engineer working across reinforcement learning, post-training, and hardware-aware ML. MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning from UCL, previously a visiting researcher at BMW on end-to-end autonomous driving.
⚙️ Currently building: kompass, a harness for writing, testing and benchmarking CUDA and Triton kernels against PyTorch baselines (online softmax, fused linear cross-entropy, FlashAttention, GEMM next). Release coming soon.
🧠 Interests: Open-endedness, RL and post-training, automated research, inference efficiency and GPU kernels, vision-language-action models
✍️ I write about RL, JAX and GPU programming on Towards Data Science
📫 ryan.pegoud@outlook.com · Portfolio · LinkedIn
JAX · PyTorch · Triton · CUDA · vLLM · Modal · Polars · Hugging Face


