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Deploying large-scale machine learning systems for IOT applications at Samsara. Cloud and embedding AI model deployments.Senior Machine Learning Engineer with Masters in Computer Science, Machine Learning from Georgia Tech.- Former founder of a 7-figure/yr startup.- 6x patented AI and LLM products- AWS Certified Big Data Specialist- AWS Certified DeveloperA motivated software developer with a solid foundation in Machine learning and full stack engineering experienced in architecting scalable, cost efficient, observable systems.
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Principal Engineer - Ml InferenceNvidiaSan Jose, Ca, Us -
Senior Machine Learning Engineer 2Samsara Aug 2022 - PresentLed design of cloud machine learning model inference platform serving millions of IOT devices.• Reduced company cloud ML inference expenses >50%, by optimizing distributed computation with Ray and profiling model pipelines.• Maintained >99.999% uptime executing 100’s of millions of cloud ML inference for sensor fusion and computer vision models.• Reduced development time to release new ML models from months to days establishing an experimentation platform for A/B testing.• Developed CI/CD systems for managing infrastructure in Kubernetes, ArgoCD and Terraform.• Orchestrated model evaluation, data labeling, and deployments of quantized models for running on the edge.• Gave conference presentations for “Building an Agentic GenAI Framework” and “AI inference”.• Patented 6 ML and IoT designs including LLM agent framework, video privacy via computer vision, and vehicle sensor visualization.stack: Python, Ray, Kubernetes, AWS, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Spark, OpenAI, GenAI, Embedded Firmware, VLLM -
Senior Software Engineer - Full StackSamsara Jul 2019 - Aug 2022San Francisco, California, United StatesSupported ingestion and processing of video for millions of lOT video devices (ex. Dashcams).Tech Stack: Golang, GraphQL, Typescript, React, Terraform, GRPC, Spark, Datadog• Maintained video processing pipelines for 1M+ IoT video devices and 250k+ videos processed a day.• Established observability pipelines, documentation, oncall processes to maintain 30+ microservices supporting a $250M+/yr product.• Developed 4 greenfield camera products to customer releases. Coordinating cross-team integrations across firmware, cloud, and frontend for video visualization of remote devices (ex. Dashcams).• Worked on embedded systems, creating algorithms to detect harsh driving events based on IMU data. -
Full Stack DeveloperTrack Revenue Aug 2017 - May 2019San Francisco, California, United StatesContributed to full stack and devops development for advertisement analytics platform tracking billions of events every month.• Architected anomaly fraud detection system to analyze over 60,000 advertisement click records per minute using Kinesis Streaming Analytics. • Developed an Elasticsearch ETL pipeline to track billions of events a month utilizing AWS Kinesis, Lambda. Making search in the dashboard easy and rapidly accessible.• Reduced click-through response time by ~80% (50ms -> 10ms) by introducing asynchronous calls to external services. Bringing customers to the landing pages faster and increasing conversion rates.• Created unit testing framework for continuous integration with Jenkins for developers to run while checking in pull requests on Github. Speeding up DX workflow and reducing error rates before quality assurance.• Refined invoicing system which handled over $5 million in transactions per month for the finance team to specify individual events to payout to affiliates. Reducing obligations to pay out fraudulent traffic.• Wrote Ansible scripts to provision and make changes to cloud services for new features. Shared responsibility in deployment for major version releases.• Led development in converting infrastructure of hundred of EC2 instances to Docker containers using AWS ECS.Tech Stack: Python, Django, Angular, MySQL, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Git, RabbitMQ, CeleryAWS Stack: Redshift, Kinesis, Kinesis Analytics, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, Lambda, EC2, ECS -
Software Engineer / FounderDropkick Apr 2015 - Jun 2017Founded company that produced $1.5+ million revenue first year by enabling e-commerce shops to automate drop-shipping operations: managing item stock, pricing strategies, and customer service.• Provisioned cluster of EC2 servers to crawl item pages and provide to the minute updates for price and inventory for over 15,000 listings.• Utilized Selenium browser to automate daily operations to scale to >25K orders a year.• Made data labeling platform to provide human in the loop feedback system to manage inventory.Tech Stack: Python, React, GraphQL, Flask, Celery, Selenium Webdriver, Jenkins, Git, RabbitMQ, Celery, EC2, React Relay, SQLAlchemy -
EngineerBlueplanet Farms Inc. Nov 2015 - Nov 2016Half Moon Bay, CaAn agriculture technology startup focused on automating growing operations and harvesting for strawberries. I was employee #2• Designed and constructed electromechanical systems to handle all aspects of hydroponic plant growth. Including watering systems, creating recipes for nutrient dosing, and cooling.• Managed daily operations and labor crews.
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R&D Engineering InternB/E Aerospace Oct 2012 - Dec 2013Anaheim, Ca• Assisted in performing tests and report writing for research and development projects of electro-mechanical chiller and air conditioning units to the specification of airline manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus.• Utilized Solidworks to produce technical drawings for test schematics, electrical diagrams, and manufacturing to produce parts.• Completed test for material corrosion for refrigerated parts to the requirements of the Airbus A350.• Participated in tests for airflow, acoustics, thermodynamic cycles, swing and impact, and control systems.
Brian Westphal Education Details
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Livermore High School
Frequently Asked Questions about Brian Westphal
What company does Brian Westphal work for?
Brian Westphal works for Nvidia
What is Brian Westphal's role at the current company?
Brian Westphal's current role is Principal Engineer - ML Inference.
What schools did Brian Westphal attend?
Brian Westphal attended Georgia Institute Of Technology, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, Livermore High School.
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Brian Westphal's colleagues are Julia Gonzalez, Preetham Kottary, Vikas Giriraj, Chris Hotchkiss, Sumanth Y, Vashu Gupta, Sushma Swaraj Ollala.
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