# Mira Castellan

> Mira Castellan: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Brooklyn, New York. Open to work. This is the portfolio page of Mira on JobsWithPay, a website for tech jobs.

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## Key facts
- Name: Mira Castellan
- Job title: Senior Machine Learning Engineer
- Location: Brooklyn, New York
- Open to work: yes
- Current job: Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Tidewater AI, since Mar 2023
- Page: https://jobswithpay.com/p/sample
- Last update of the page: 2026-11-08

## About
I build the systems that serve large language models: fast inference servers, careful evaluation and the tools around them. For six years I have worked between research and production. I like small, clear code and measurements that people can trust.

## Experience
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Tidewater AI, New York, Mar 2023 to Present (current job)
  - Lead the inference team of four engineers for the company's chat product.
  - Cut the median response latency by 38% with speculative decoding and a new batch scheduler.
  - Built the evaluation harness that the research team uses for every model release.
  - Skills for this job (stated by Mira): Model inference, Rust, CUDA, Model evaluation
- Machine Learning Engineer at Kestrel Robotics, Boston, Jun 2020 to Feb 2023
  - Trained the vision models for warehouse robots, from data pipeline to deployment on the robot.
  - Moved model training to a shared GPU cluster and cut the cost for each experiment by half.
  - Skills for this job (stated by Mira): Computer vision, PyTorch, CUDA, Kubernetes
- Data Scientist at Orchard Health, Boston, Aug 2018 to May 2020
  - Built the risk models for the care team, used for 40,000 patients each month.
  - Skills for this job (stated by Mira): Risk models, SQL, Python

## Work files
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- Faster answers from a shared model server (2024, Tidewater AI). Result: 38% lower median response time
  - The problem: Many users shared one GPU server, and short requests waited behind long ones.
  - What Mira did: I designed speculative batching, wrote the scheduler, and measured it on three GPU types.
  - What an AI tool did: An agent wrote the first version of the benchmark scripts. I wrote the scheduler myself.
  - Proof: [Paper: Speculative Batching, MLSys 2024](https://example.com/paper/1)
  - Proof: [Code: tinyserve, scheduler module](https://example.com/code/tinyserve)
- Evaluation reports that a team can repeat (2025, open source). Result: 41,300 downloads a month
  - The problem: Each model release had a different evaluation report, so nobody could compare two releases.
  - What Mira did: I defined one report format, built the tool evalcards, and studied 40 model releases with it.
  - What an AI tool did: An agent wrote the web pages of the reports. I reviewed them and wrote the scoring code.
  - Proof: [Package: evalcards on PyPI](https://example.com/pypi/evalcards)
  - Proof: [Paper: NeurIPS 2025](https://example.com/paper/2)
- Tools that let an agent test a model server (2026, open source). Result: 9 pull requests merged by a different team
  - The problem: Agents could start a model server, but they could not check if it answered correctly.
  - What Mira did: I wrote an MCP server and the tests that show when an agent reads a result incorrectly.
  - What an AI tool did: An agent wrote most of the server code. I wrote the tests first and rejected 3 of its 12 changes.
  - Proof: [Code: serve-check-mcp](https://example.com/code/serve-check-mcp)
  - Proof: [Merged pull requests in agentkit](https://example.com/code/agentkit/pulls)

## Work with AI tools
Written by Mira: I write the design and the tests myself. An AI agent writes most of the first version of the code. I read each line before it is merged, and I measure each change before I trust it.
- Checked by JobsWithPay in the co-author lines of the commits in the own public repositories on GitHub: 38% of the commits in 2026 name an AI agent as co-author (233 of 612 commits). In 2025 it was 4%.

## Projects
- [tinyserve](https://example.com/tinyserve): A small inference server for language models, written in Rust. It runs one model on one GPU with continuous batching. Technology: Rust, CUDA, gRPC.
- [evalcards](https://example.com/evalcards): Short, repeatable evaluation reports for model releases, as static web pages. Technology: Python, DuckDB.
- Batch scheduler notes: A written guide to batch scheduling for model serving, with measurements on three GPU types. Technology: Writing.

## Skills
- Python, Rust, PyTorch, CUDA, AI agents, vLLM, Triton, Kubernetes, Model evaluation, Computer vision, Distributed training, SQL

## Education
- MS, Computer Science, University of Michigan, 2016 to 2018
- BS, Mathematics, University of Lisbon, 2012 to 2016

## Code on GitHub
- [mira-sample](https://example.com/code): 34 public repositories, 2,690 stars in total, 812 followers. Data from GitHub on 2026-11-08.
- Languages: Python 44%, Rust 24%, TypeScript 15%, C++ 8%, Shell 6%, Other 3%
- [tinyserve](https://example.com/code/tinyserve) (Rust, 1,840 stars): Small LLM inference server in Rust with continuous batching.
- [evalcards](https://example.com/code/evalcards) (Python, 512 stars): Repeatable evaluation reports for model releases.
- [kv-cache-viz](https://example.com/code/kv-cache-viz) (TypeScript, 187 stars): See how the KV cache fills during generation.
- [gpu-bench](https://example.com/code/gpu-bench) (Python, 96 stars): Throughput and latency benchmarks for common GPUs.
- [dotfiles](https://example.com/code/dotfiles) (Shell, 31 stars): No description.
- [triton-kernels](https://example.com/code/triton-kernels) (Python, 24 stars): Fused attention and layer-norm kernels for study.

## Research
- 7 papers, 402 citations, h-index 5. Data from ORCID and Semantic Scholar on 2026-11-08.
- [Speculative Batching: Lower Latency for Shared Inference Servers](https://example.com/paper/1), MLSys, 2024, 214 citations
- [When Do Evaluation Sets Go Stale? A Study of 40 Model Releases](https://example.com/paper/2), NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks, 2025, 88 citations
- [Grasp Detection with Few Labels in Warehouse Scenes](https://example.com/paper/3), ICRA, 2022, 61 citations
- Calibrated Risk Scores for Care Management, Machine Learning for Health, 2020, 23 citations
- [Draft Models That Know When to Stop](https://example.com/paper/5), arXiv, 2026, 3 citations

## Proof checked by JobsWithPay
JobsWithPay read these public sources itself on 2026-11-08. The numbers come from the sources, not from Mira.
- Python: 3 public repositories (632 stars), 23 merged pull requests in torchwave/torchwave and 1 more project, 2 packages (45.2K downloads a month)
- PyTorch: 2 public repositories (120 stars), 14 merged pull requests in torchwave/torchwave, 2 models on Hugging Face (14.3K downloads a month)
- Model evaluation: 2 public repositories (608 stars), 1 package (41.3K downloads a month), 1 paper (88 citations)
- CUDA: 2 public repositories (1,864 stars), 9 merged pull requests in servekit/servekit
- AI agents: 1 public repository (310 stars), 9 merged pull requests in agentkit/agentkit
- Rust: 1 public repository (1,840 stars), 5 merged pull requests in ferrox/ferrox-runtime
- vLLM: 9 merged pull requests in servekit/servekit
- Computer vision: 1 model on Hugging Face (1,900 downloads a month), 1 paper (61 citations)
- SQL: 3 merged pull requests in duckling-db/duckling
- Triton: 1 public repository (24 stars)
- LLMs: 3 public repositories (2,539 stars), 9 merged pull requests in servekit/servekit, 2 packages (43.4K downloads a month), 1 model on Hugging Face (12.4K downloads a month), 1 Hugging Face Space (312 likes)
- Model inference: 1 public repository (1,840 stars), 9 merged pull requests in servekit/servekit, 1 package (3,900 downloads a month), 1 paper (214 citations)
- Machine learning: 14 merged pull requests in torchwave/torchwave, 2 models on Hugging Face (14.3K downloads a month)
- Skills that Mira listed, with no public evidence that JobsWithPay can check: Kubernetes, Distributed training

Strongest evidence:
- [torchwave/torchwave](https://example.com/code/torchwave/torchwave/pulls) (GitHub, Python): 14 merged pull requests
- [agentkit/agentkit](https://example.com/code/agentkit/agentkit/pulls) (GitHub, TypeScript): 9 merged pull requests
- [servekit/servekit](https://example.com/code/servekit/servekit/pulls) (GitHub, Python): 9 merged pull requests
- [evalcards](https://example.com/pypi/evalcards) (PyPI, Repeatable evaluation reports for model releases.): 41.3K downloads a month
- [ferrox/ferrox-runtime](https://example.com/code/ferrox/ferrox-runtime/pulls) (GitHub, Rust): 5 merged pull requests
- [mira-sample/tinyllama-speculator-1b](https://example.com/hf/tinyllama-speculator-1b) (Hugging Face, text-generation): 12.4K downloads a month
- [tinyserve](https://example.com/code/tinyserve) (GitHub, Rust): 1,840 stars
- [duckling-db/duckling](https://example.com/code/duckling-db/duckling/pulls) (GitHub, C++): 3 merged pull requests
- [Speculative Batching: Lower Latency for Shared Inference Servers](https://example.com/paper/1) (Semantic Scholar, MLSys): 214 citations
- [tinyserve-client](https://example.com/pypi/tinyserve-client) (PyPI, Python client for tinyserve.): 3,900 downloads a month
- [kv-cache-viz](https://example.com/npm/kv-cache-viz) (npm, See how the KV cache fills during generation.): 2,100 downloads a month
- [evalcards](https://example.com/code/evalcards) (GitHub, Python): 512 stars

## Recent public work (90 days before 2026-11-08)
- 2026-11-08: New paper: [Draft Models That Know When to Stop](https://example.com/paper/5) (arXiv, 2026), ORCID and Semantic Scholar
- 2026-11-07: Pushed to [tinyserve](https://example.com/code/tinyserve), GitHub
- 2026-11-02: New version of [tinyserve](https://example.com/code/tinyserve/releases) (v0.9.0), GitHub
- 2026-10-29: Pull request merged in [torchwave/torchwave](https://example.com/code/torchwave/pull/8812) (Fuse the rotary embedding into the attention kernel), GitHub
- 2026-10-21: Pull request merged in [servekit/servekit](https://example.com/code/servekit/pull/2140) (Add chunked prefill to the batch scheduler), GitHub
- 2026-10-15: New model on Hugging Face: [mira-sample/tinyllama-speculator-1b](https://example.com/hf/tinyllama-speculator-1b), Hugging Face
- 2026-10-12: New version on PyPI: [evalcards](https://example.com/pypi/evalcards) (0.6.0), PyPI
- 2026-10-05: New post: [What speculative decoding costs on small GPUs](https://example.com/blog/speculative-costs) (Notes on serving), Blog

## Links
- Website: https://example.com/
- LinkedIn: https://example.com/linkedin
- GitHub: https://example.com/code
- Google Scholar: https://example.com/scholar
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/mira-sample
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/~mira-sample
- Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/mirasample
- Email: mira@example.com

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