Derek Lilienthal
Software Engineer (AI/ML)
Derek Lilienthal
Software Engineer (AI/ML)
Biography
Software Engineer II on the Research AI Workflows Team at PNNL, specializing in scaling AI applications across HPC and cloud environments.
Experience
- Efficient distributed training of vision-language models on multi-node, multi-GPU clusters
- Deploying scalable cloud infrastructure with AWSÂ
- LLM application development using LlamaIndex and LangGraph
- Containerization and CI/CD automation with Docker and GitLab
Key Projects
- PermitAI: Custom end-to-end Agentic RAG pipeline (ChatNEPA)
- Distributed LLM training on on-prem HPC systems
- LLM tutorials for HPC documentation
- Multi-agent systems and sandbox environments for LLM testing
Education
- Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, San Jose State University
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, California State University