David Antolick

I grew up obsessed with astronomy, then discovered genetics in high school and figured I'd spend my life in a lab. Right before college a friend taught me Python and something clicked that never un-clicked. Computational biology at RPI let me keep both code and science. During my master's at Pitt I hosted a small model on my own 3070 Ti, watched it generate output, and the priority order flipped. I've been building full-time since.

I treat engineering as iterative discovery: build something observable first, then let measurement guide simplification. At ClimbSpeed that meant replacing a complex validation agent with a minimal tool design that scored 15 points higher. At J&J it means pipelines that turn heterogeneous manufacturing data into something a chatbot can safely query. The goal is always the smallest architecture that reliably solves the problem.