Leading the technical direction of the Global Ultrasound Institute, a startup advancing the next generation of point-of-care ultrasound, including AI-assisted tooling for medical imaging, diagnostics, and clinical education.
Dion Whitehead, PhD
AI Engineer · Scientific Software Architect · ML Infrastructure · Open Science
Open Source
- framejs.app — AI (skill) combined with infrastructure to generate and share interactive browser-based visualizations
- container.mtfm.io — public compute queues for scientific workflows
- Metapages — shareable scientific workflows in the browser
- websocket-router — websocket router for scientific workflows any other application: connect anything real time with disposable unguessable channels
- github.com/metapages
- github.com/dionjwa
Technology
I build across the technological stack: AI agents, AI skills, AI MCP servers, full-stack web, mobile apps, cloud computing infrastructure, machine learning platforms, and scientific research tools.
Scientific Workflows: High-level focus on building collaborative scientific workflows that are shareable and reusable.
AI-Powered Web: Built browser-based tools that use LLMs to generate interactive visualizations and data dashboards on the fly. Integrated AI generation into collaborative scientific workflows.
AI & Agents: Agentic coding workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot), multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks. Daily driver of LLM-assisted development across the full stack.
MCP & Infrastructure: Developed MCP servers for container-based compute, enabling AI agents to provision and orchestrate remote execution environments. Experience bridging AI capabilities with cloud infrastructure.
ML Platform: 5+ years building ML infrastructure at Sony AI — training pipelines, experiment tracking, model serving, GPU cluster management. Full stack from Kubernetes to React dashboards.
Core Stack: TypeScript, Python, Go, Docker, Deno, Node.js. AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes. React, Preact. Postgres, Redis. Git, CI/CD.
Focus Areas & Keywords
AI & ML: Large language models (LLMs), AI agents, agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, fine-tuning, model evaluation, reinforcement learning, machine learning infrastructure (MLOps), training pipelines, experiment tracking, model serving, GPU cluster management, AI-generated visualization.
Science & Research: AI for science, AI-accelerated research, computational biology, bioinformatics, molecular simulation & dynamics, scientific workflows, scientific visualization, reproducible research, open science, scientific data infrastructure, drug discovery tooling, biological networks, evolution, complex systems.
Engineering & Platform: Distributed systems, cloud computing, high-performance / batch compute, containerized compute grids, full-stack development, data pipelines, developer tooling, open-source software, technical leadership & architecture.
Experience


Building advanced and shareable scientific visualizations for molecular dynamics open-source software.
Founded metapage.io: shareable, reproducible scientific workflows in the browser. Abstracts compute into a universal, open-source grid where any machine or cluster can be plugged in to power your workflows, with AI/LLM generation integrated directly into the pipeline. Combines compute, AI, and visualization all in the browser.

Built and architected machine learning infrastructure and researcher-focused tools powering AI research at scale: training pipelines, experiment tracking, distributed model training, GPU cluster orchestration (Kubernetes), and model serving. Full stack from backend ML machinery to React front-end visualization and dashboards for researchers. Co-author on Sony AI's GT Sophy, the deep reinforcement learning agent that outraced champion Gran Turismo drivers (published in Nature, 2022).

Co-designed the technology stack for Cogitai's reinforcement learning and continual-learning APIs, delivering reinforcement-learning models as a cloud service. Built from the ground up, balancing current team abilities with optimal new technology.
Worked on molecular simulation applications and Genetic Constructor. Integrated scientific tools into more accessible versions.

Led a small team that published the iOS and Android versions of Fresh Deck Poker. Developed for both the front-end client and back-end systems, ensuring maximum performance and development velocity.

Prototyped and developed flash social games.

Collaborated with biologists to analyze a large and unique data set, providing unique software tools due to deep understanding of the data, statistical methods, and the possibilities of multiple interconnected software packages.
Education
Publications
- Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning — Wurman, P.R., Barrett, S., Kawamoto, K. et al. Nature 602, 223–228 (2022)
- The look-ahead effect of phenotypic mutations — Whitehead, D., Wilke, C., Vernazobres, D. & Bornberg-Bauer, E. Biology Direct (2008)
- The AtGenExpress global stress expression data set — Kilian, J., Whitehead, D. et al. Plant Journal (2007)
- Reconstructing gene function and gene regulatory networks in prokaryotes — Whitehead, D. PhD Thesis (2005)
