Felix Brener

Hi, I’m Felix Brener

I'm a multimodal and forward-deployed AI engineer. I port models to MLX, design image evals, and ship full-stack products.

I'm a multimodal and forward-deployed AI engineer. I port models to MLX, design image evals, and ship full-stack products.

Studying
Neurobiology & Economics, University of Rochester ’27
Based in
New York, open to relocating
Open to
Forward-deployed and applied-AI engineering roles

Experience

Full résumé

Quadrant Capital Advisors

Summer AI AnalystNew YorkMay–August 2026

Built four Claude-based research tools for equity and credit analysts. A batch Porter’s Five Forces pipeline automated manual reviews at 99% concordance with senior analyst baselines, cutting turnaround by weeks.

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DriverCourseOnline

Co-Founder / DeveloperNew YorkApril 2025–present

Built a New York State online pre-licensing course to DMV DTP-402 rules: server-enforced 270-minute seat time, identity checks down to keystroke dynamics, electronic completion reporting to the DMV. Awaiting DMV approval.

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  • Mount Sinai Hospital, Abilities Research CenterResearch AssistantOctober 2022–August 2023, May–August 2024Co-authored a paper on smartphone heart-rate-variability baselines for concussion in 752 adolescent athletes; built ML pose tracking from video and quaternion-based iPhone motion tracking.

Projects

Research

Skills

Languages & Data
Python (pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Plotly), TypeScript, SQL
AI/ML
LLM evals, Claude API, PyTorch, ComfyUI, MLX (ports, quantization, distillation, speculative decoding)
Infrastructure
Next.js, Node.js, Firebase, AWS (App Runner, S3, SES), Stripe, Redis, Docker, GitHub Actions

More on GitHub

  • pip package · Python · MLX

    OpenMOSS’s 5B bilingual text-rendering model on Apple Silicon, exact against the official PyTorch pipeline and 9.3 GB at its peak for a 1024² image. Its --turbo mode makes an image in about 2 minutes instead of 12½.

    Open on GitHub
  • pip package · Python · MLX

    Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3 Image Klein on Apple Silicon, released the day BFL’s was: text-to-image, editing with up to 10 references and bounding-box layout; it matches BFL’s own render at 35.9 dB.

    Open on GitHub
  • Codex skill · Codex · Agent skills

    An agent skill that reads a student’s Blackboard courses and keeps a Google Tasks list of assignments, each task opening on the assignment’s own link, refreshed weekly. It shows the proposed updates for approval before the first sync.

    Open on GitHub
  • Challenge entry · PyTorch · Quantization

    A draft submission to OpenAI’s 16 MB language-model challenge: int6 quantization + zstd, fp16 embeddings, a 3× MLP, 4,096-token sequence length and sliding-window eval.

    Open on GitHub
  • ComfyUI nodes · Python · ComfyUI

    Two ComfyUI nodes (a KJNodes fork) that compile artistic choices into structured Ideogram 4 prompts, with a design note on the controls.

    Open on GitHub
  • Browser tool · JavaScript · WebGL2

    A local studio for dithering, halftone screens and ASCII, with WebGL2 bloom, halation and chromatic aberration. Exports PNG, WebP, SVG and frame-exact MP4.

    Open on GitHub
  • CSS study · CSS

    A pure-CSS progressive blur over six layers. A random search over 5,000+ parameter sets cut its banding score from 0.0226 to 0.0086 (2.6× lower).

    Open on GitHub

Education

  • Coursework: Advanced Computational Neuroscience, Advanced Statistical Methodology, Microeconomics, Genetics; in progress: Brain-Machine Interfaces, Data Methods for Economists, Developmental Biology.

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