Elliot Arledge is a GPU programming educator and author of CUDA for Deep Learning (Manning Publications). His free courses on FreeCodeCamp have reached millions of learners, including a 12-hour CUDA programming course (420K+ views) and a 5.5-hour LLM from Scratch course (1.2M+ views). He's also the author of three self-published technical books covering LLM pre-training, inference engine design, and reinforcement learning post-training — all built to run on consumer hardware. Elliot runs the YouTube channel "Elliotcodes," previously served as Head of AI at FR8, and has worked on distributed GPU and TPU systems at the frontier of AI development. He teaches complex topics by building everything from scratch — no black boxes, no hand-waving.