Nate Sutton
Nate Sutton
teaching machines about healthcare
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I'm a pragmatic engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating data-driven systems from concept to production. I’ve built platforms from early ambiguity to product-market fit in highly regulated environments.
I live in the mountains of North Carolina and spend my off-hours shepherding 🐑.
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
2020 - 2026
As the founding engineer I built the core platform from concept to production - now processing millions of imaging exams across hospital systems nationwide.
As the founding engineer I built the core platform from concept to production - now processing millions of imaging exams across hospital systems nationwide.
2018 - 2023
Mentored 30+ students during their transition to data roles.
Mentored 30+ students during their transition to data roles.
2019 - 2020
Accelerated feature delivery from bi-weekly to daily releases by implementing continuous deployment for our database.
2017 - 2019
Patented a caching strategy to identify ER patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome in real-time (#11,177,041 ↗)
Patented a caching strategy to identify ER patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome in real-time (#11,177,041 ↗)
2015 - 2017
Delivered 6 different acute care models for patient risk stratification, including real-time sepsis detection in a collaboration with the Mayo Clinic.
Delivered 6 different acute care models for patient risk stratification, including real-time sepsis detection in a collaboration with the Mayo Clinic.
PROJECTS
PROJECTS
2026
Plenty of harnesses run local models now, and pi is a fantastic default for the same reason llama.cpp is: it works with everything. chad is moving the opposite direction.
1 set of silicon. This project is focused on making the macbook pro you already have usable. Not a $10K GPU.
1 capable model. Qwen 3.8 27B. This isn't the frontier, but you probably aren't solving frontier problems. Focus on 1 model buys speed. You'll experience ~ 30 tokens/second generation instead of ~ 10 tokens/second for stock llama.cpp implementations. This speed comes from MLX, targeted custom kernels for this model, and a bundled dflash2 drafter.
1 tightly-coupled agent loop. Instead of a stateless /completions endpoint, the agent loop in chad owns the backend process. This comes with nice advantages that make the KV cache more stable and the coding experience measurably better by avoiding long prefills at all costs.
2023
Over 10 papers have tried to automate radiology reports from only medical images. In 2023 I developed a multi-modal LLM to generate clinically useful reports given both an image and a patient's reason for visit as context.
Over 10 papers have tried to automate radiology reports from only medical images. In 2023 I developed a multi-modal LLM to generate clinically useful reports given both an image and a patient's reason for visit as context.
2022
When you have a relational database, you will inevitably have to change it! This repo will help you decide between 3 useful frameworks for database migrations by walking through each implementation in a dockerized PostgreSQL database.
When you have a relational database, you will inevitably have to change it! This repo will help you decide between 3 useful frameworks for database migrations by walking through each implementation in a dockerized PostgreSQL database.
This repository allows you to quickly spin up a set of common services that are useful in building machine learning proof of concepts. Several of my mentees have had success using this as a launching point for take home assignments they were given during their application process.
This repository allows you to quickly spin up a set of common services that are useful in building machine learning proof of concepts. Several of my mentees have had success using this as a launching point for take home assignments they were given during their application process.
2021
Thanks to new regulations, hospitals are required to disclose their prices for common services on their websites. I curated a list of U.S hospitals and made their prices comparable in an open database.
Thanks to new regulations, hospitals are required to disclose their prices for common services on their websites. I curated a list of U.S hospitals and made their prices comparable in an open database.
2018
Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for a patient to visit the emergency room, but few have a major cardiac event. At Vituity we patented a method for identifying these patients in real-time using a novel caching strategy. This supports clinicians in their decision to discharge low-risk patients from the ER and helps reduce overcrowding in admissions to higher levels of care.
Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for a patient to visit the emergency room, but few have a major cardiac event. At Vituity we patented a method for identifying these patients in real-time using a novel caching strategy. This supports clinicians in their decision to discharge low-risk patients from the ER and helps reduce overcrowding in admissions to higher levels of care.
I led Vituity's finalist submission for the Department of Homeland Security's challenge and was awarded $20K. Our solution monitored emergency department wait times across 142 hospitals in 19 states to detect emergent influenza pandemics.
I led Vituity's finalist submission for the Department of Homeland Security's challenge and was awarded $20K. Our solution monitored emergency department wait times across 142 hospitals in 19 states to detect emergent influenza pandemics.
SKILLS
SKILLS
Languages
SQL
Python
R
Platforms
Azure
AWS
Tools
Bash
Git
Docker
ML Frameworks
Pytorch
H2O
Domains
Machine Learning
Language
Time Series
Standards
HL7
FHIR
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
2018
Is conservation right to go big? Protected area size and conservation return-on-investment
2017
Factoring economic costs into conservation planning may not improve agreement over priorities for protection
2016
The grain of spatially referenced economic cost and biodiversity data and the effectiveness of a cost targeting strategy
2014
A reliance on agricultural land values in conservation planning alters the spatial distribution of priorities and overestimates the acquisition costs of protected areas
MENTEES
MENTEES
I'm not currently taking on new mentees, but where did previous ones land? All over!
I'm not currently taking on new mentees, but where did previous ones land? All over!
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