Devin J. Dawson
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Application Engineer
(Vibe Coder)
🏢 NYC ✈️ USVI 🏖️
Recent Activity
AIE Code Agents NYC Hackathon
AI Engineer, Cerebral Valley
November 2025
Daytona HackSprint
Daytona, Ilias Benabdallah
November 2025
MCP’s First Birthday
Anthropic, Gradio, Hugging Face
November 2025
Synthetic Data AI Agents and OpenEnv Challenge
AMD, PyTorch, and Unsloth
October 2025
Roo Code Hackathon
Roo Code, Major League Hacking
September 2025
Gradio Agents & MCP Hackathon 2025
Anthropic, Gradio, Hugging Face
June 2025
Llama 4 NYC Hackathon
Meta, Amazon, Cerebral Valley
June 2025
Training and Courses
AMD AI Academy
- AI Agents 101: Building AI Agents with MCP and Open-Source Inference
- AI Agents 201: Design to Deployment: A Hands-On Guide to Multi-Agent Systems
- Diffusion Models: From Prompts to Images and Video
- Finetuning Your Own R1 Reason Model on Unsloth
- LLM Serving Inference with vLLM and MI300X GPUs
- Triton Kernel Development on AMD Instinct GPUs
- Kubernetes on AMD GPUs – From Zero to AI Inference
Current
Salt River Canyon ( 2024 – Present )
Owner, Managed Services Provider and Consultancy
https://saltrivercanyon.com
Water Pistol ( 2024 – Present )
Founder, AI and Machine Learning Research and Data Science
https://waterpistol.co
UNCLEMUSCLEZ ( 2009 – Present )
Content Creator, Video Games and Technology
https://unclemusclez.com
Previous
VNR Consulting, Inc. ( 2023 – 2024 )
System Administrator
Personal IT and
Web Development ( 2013 – 2023)
Owner, Managed Services Provider and Consultancy
https://devinjdawson.com
Robyn Cohn C.P.A., P.L.L.C. ( 2016 – 2021 )
Blockchain Consultant
CITISPIRE ( 2018 )
Blockchain Consultant
https://www.citispire.com/
Great Chefs of America ( 2017 )
Content and Media Manager
https://greatchefs.com/
Gallery Systems ( 2012 – 2013 )
Systems Administrator
https://gallerysystems.com
Apple( 2011 – 2012 )
Specialist
https://apple.com
Studio Center ( 2011 )
Casting and Production
https://studiocenter.com
Past Projects
Monero Apparel ( 2016 – 2021, Inactive )
Monero and Cryptocurrency Themed Apparel and Merchandise
https://moneroapparel.com
The North South Position ( 2021, Inactive )
Mixed Martial Arts Analysis and Betting Podcast
https://thenorthsouthposition.com
Bit by Bit ( 2017, Defunct )
Cryptocurrency Analysis Podcast
https://bitbybit.tv
Altcoins Annonymous ( 2016 – 2017, Defunct )
Cryptocurrency Analysis Podcast
https://altcoinsanonymous.com
The Worst Team Ever (2013 – Present, Inactive )
Online Gaming Collective and Community
https://theworstteamever.com
Education
Ithaca College ( Class of 2011 )
Philosophy
- An Argument for Reefer Madness, a presentation on behalf of the Philosophy Department for the James J. Whalen Academic Symposium and Recipient of the Spring 2010 Whalen Symposium Prize in Philosophy.
- Geeks Wear Glasses and Dads Don’t Have a Clue: A Comparison of Messages about Gender, Weight, and Appearance on Teen Shows, Family Sitcoms, and Adult Sitcoms (2005-2010), a presentation on behalf of the Ithaca College Psychology Department for the National Conference of Undergraduate Study (NCUR).