G'day! I'm Philpax (he/him), your friendly neighbourhood polyglot programmer/engineer, and I'm passionate about computers, how we interact with them, and how we can make them work for us.

I've worked with every layer of the stack - from the little electrons racing around my workbench, to software riding high enough for Snoop Dogg to call for advice - and sometimes, those projects actually go somewhere!

During the day, I work in the game development industry, but my moonlight callings are eclectic, numerous, and all virtual, including but certainly not limited to:

• game reverse engineering and modification
• low-level and embedded programming
• virtual and augmented reality
• open-source governance
• artificial intelligence and machine learning
• compiler and language hacking
• human-computer interface research
• computer architecture and design

My day job keeps me financially comfortable, but the AI work I do (especially as the primary maintainer of rustformers/llm) benefits from new and fast hardware, especially for testing a diverse set of configurations. I'd like to raise money for this hardware so that I can more effectively develop and test AI-related projects.