About
Hi, I’m Stephen Bonner — a machine learning researcher currently working in pre-clinical drug discovery at AstraZeneca (Views expressed here are my own and do not represent my employer). I’m particularly interested in LLMs for scientific usecases, GPU performance, open-source software, and Linux-based systems. This blog is a place to document experiments, deep-dives, and lessons learned—especially when things don’t go quite as planned.
Outside of work, I enjoy cycling, skiing, photography, and tinkering with hardware and home lab setups - these topics may occasionally feature here as well.
Please feel free to contact me on Linkedin.
Personal Metadata
Location: Cambridge, UK
Timezone: Europe/London
Current Focus
Some current areas of focus and interest (outside of my day job) include:
LLMs for scientific workflows
GPU performance and inference optimization
Reproducible Linux-first ML tooling
Tools Stack
Some of the tools and technologies I enjoy using(in no particular order and by no means an exhaustive list) include:
Operating Systems
Arch Linux: My primary OS for development, experimentation and compute. Checkout my dotfiles for more details.
macOS: My daily driver for general use and development.