I'll just take a quick moment to introduce myself to convince you that I am actually qualified to be
taking you on this eight week journey.
So my name is Ed Donner.
I've got about 20 years of experience in software engineering, data science, and tech leadership.
Most of my career at JP Morgan, where at the end I ran engineering teams of about 300 people.
I started out in London where I'm from.
I then moved to Tokyo for a bit and ended up in New York City, where I live now.
After JP Morgan, I founded a couple of AI startups.
My first startup was sold, was acquired a couple of years ago, and in fact, that picture on the bottom
right shows the moment when it was announced on a Times Square billboard.
That was a particularly magical moment for me.
But I don't want to show you that photo to brag about my Times Square moment, but also because, curiously,
I actually live very near Times Square.
It's an unusual place to live because it's such a sort of tourist place to be.
But if you see these two red arrows and you imagine where they join up, that's basically where I live.
And that's where I am right now.
And so if you can imagine if I wave at you right now, if this were somehow a real time photo, you'd
have a little me waving at you from roundabout where those red lines meet.
Okay.
And the final thing to mention, the picture in the middle at the bottom shows me flying.
Or in front of a plane.
You might be thinking, that's me saying, this is my big passion, my hobby, I fly planes.
But in fact, that's that's not not what I was going to say.
It turns out that whilst I'm very proficient and highly skilled in the field of llms, that does not
translate in any way to my hand-eye coordination, which is terrible on almost any front, including
flying planes where I have tried and am very shaky to say the least.
So if it turns out that you find yourself in a plane and you look at the cockpit and you see that I
am the person there on the stick, I suggest you look quickly for the nearest parachute.
But if it comes to you needing to go on an eight week course to build up commercial expertise in how
to be an LM engineer, then you've come to the right place.
All right, without further ado, let's get to the course.