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. Remote-first. Passionate about developer experience and shipping quality software.

Perth, Western Australia

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Papers

Academic publications

Notable Achievements

International Media — Led an AI project featured in New Scientist, Wired and the NYT.

Global Platform — Built core systems powering asset finance across three countries.

$100M Acquisition — Led R&D and development at a company later acquired for $100M.

Career Highlights

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)

Education

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.