Alvin Pane is a Founding Engineer at OutRival, a YC-backed AI company building voice agents that drive millions of interactions per month across education, insurance, and travel.
Previously, Alvin was a Senior AI Research Engineer at AMD, where he co-founded and led an R&D team focused on AI-accelerated HW debug systems and GPU optimization algorithms.
Alvin holds a Master of Engineering in Machine Learning and a Bachelor's in Engineering Science (Robotics) from the University of Toronto. He was an Academic All-Canadian and Varsity Rugby player.
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- The GPT Wrappers Were Supposed to Die
- What if AI Gets Faster Instead of Smarter?
- Links I'm Building With Right Now
- How to Save Millions on LLM Tokens
- Why Do Engineers Wear a Ring?
- When the Simulation Starts to Feel Real
- How I Built the Most Accurate Memory System in the World in 5 Days
- To Find the Answer, You Must Know the Answer