Henry Kobin

AI engineer & creative technologist.

Henry Kobin outdoors in front of yellow flowering trees

I build innovative applications powered by AI and machine learning, taking ideas from first prototype to working software. My work spans environmental science, healthcare, entertainment, and the arts.

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Currently a Staff AI/ML Engineer at Fortrea’s AIML Rapid Development Studio.

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Selected work

Professional work and independent projects.

Professional work
The Fortrea team gathered for a group photograph

Product, design, engineering, and clinical experts working as one team to turn ideas for clinical research into production applications.

  • Co-inventor on two published patent applications

Our studio builds AI, AR/VR, and mobile applications.

Staff AI/ML Engineer
Independent project

A studio that runs entirely on my own machine, turning still images into ambient video clips with versioned edits, masked effects, sound mixing, and export.

  • Five local AI models on one 16 GB GPU
  • 100% offline
  • Exports seamless 4K loops
Product concept, design, and full-stack AI development
Professional work
A laptop displaying satellite imagery and water-quality maps in GybeMaps

I built daily satellite ingestion at terabyte scale and brought field-sensor data into a water-quality mapping platform.

Lead Software Engineer, then Head of Software
Professional work
Sustainability reporting prototype with an actual-versus-goal chart and quarter-by-quarter detail, shown with test data

Full-stack work across an AI startup studio: clinical criteria review, graph data pipelines, live sensor charts, and editable Unity scenes.

  • More than 10 studio projects
Full-Stack Developer
Independent project

Five fictional artists inhabit a wall-mounted museum, generating images and gallery notes locally on a Raspberry Pi.

  • Five AI artists, fully offline on a Raspberry Pi
  • A new work about every half hour
Concept, software, and hardware integration
Independent project
A gold-colored Clifford attractor with flowing, folded forms on a dark background and a pale border

A local mathematical-art studio for exploring equations, composing print collections, and planning an office wall.

  • 30 mathematical systems
  • Print-ready up to 36 × 24 in at 300 PPI
  • Three prints hanging in my office
Concept, interface, numerical rendering, and print workflow

Technologies I work with

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Independent client work

Controlled image-to-video generation

I trained a character LoRA for visual consistency and built a ComfyUI pipeline using ControlNet, OpenPose, and AnimateDiff to produce exercise demonstration videos. My broader generative-media work also includes IP-Adapter and reference-guided synthesis.

Additional experience

Across the rest of my work

My engineering experience includes retrieval-based AI applications, Azure OpenAI, Cosmos DB, classical machine learning, web and mobile frameworks, and Linux environments.

Technical leadership & delivery

I led Gybe’s roadmap and distributed team and now contribute technical direction within Fortrea’s balanced studio. Across my career, I’ve worked on evaluation, observability, and MLOps/LLMOps, and I use Jira and Azure DevOps to coordinate planning and delivery.

Research contributions

Patent applications

Published application · Co-inventor

Artificial intelligence (AI) guidance software for document drafting

Using relevant guidance documents to help a language model suggest improvements to a draft.

US20260161882A1
Published June 11, 2026

Published application · Co-inventor

Dynamically populating a webpage in real time with content from a captured image

Extracting content from a captured image and sending it to a webpage in real time.

US20260141169A1
Published May 21, 2026

Papers & reports

First page of Fortrea’s FluSync whitepaper
Whitepaper · 2026 · 4 pages

FluSync

Proactively optimizing clinical trial operations and aligning resources with integrated disease prevalence insights

FluSync explores how disease surveillance and site-level data can guide clinical trial operations. It brings WHO, CDC, and ECDC data into comparative views and follow-up workflows. The paper describes a conceptual tool and simulation.

I contributed to this paper as part of the AIML Rapid Development Studio and am credited in its acknowledgments.

Experience & education

  1. 2024–present

    Staff AI/ML Engineer

    Fortrea

    I take AI ideas from concept to production applications in Fortrea’s AIML Rapid Development Studio, a small team with company-wide impact across commercial, clinical, marketing, and other functions. Co-inventor on two published patent applications.

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  2. 2021–2024

    Head of Software

    Gybe · 2022–2024

    Led the software roadmap and a distributed engineering team across the US West and East Coasts, Portugal, and Romania, while staying hands-on in the backend.

    Lead Software Engineer

    2021–2022

    Joined as the first developer and built Gybe’s cloud infrastructure from scratch across multiple cloud providers: terabyte-scale daily satellite ingestion, machine learning, and pipelines for custom field sensors, serving customers around the world.

    Explore GybeMaps
  3. 2018–2021

    Full-Stack Developer

    Verdant A.I.

    Full-stack work across more than 10 projects in an AI startup studio, including clinical NLP and criteria review, graph data pipelines, live sensor charts, and text-to-Unity scenes.

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What colleagues say

I was always impressed by his ability to judge what level of sophistication is required for any given feature — he really internalized the golden 80/20 rule.

Philipp GrötschCo-founder & CTO, Gybe

He joined our startup as the first developer and handled all aspects of our complex stack, finding and addressing weaknesses proactively from day one.

Ivan LalovićCo-founder & CEO, Gybe
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Open to conversations about applied AI and creative technology.

Off the clock, I’m usually climbing or out on a trail.

Henry Kobin outdoors with a backpack and climbing rope

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