I am an experienced software engineering leader, with rich and solid hands-on experience. My passion is to build AI systems and deliver value to business. My current focus is building high performance and large scale deep learning solutions. At Amazon, I ran teams in Alexa and later AGI org. My first team manages, scales, secures hundreds of petabytes of datasets used by thousands of modelers to train ML models. I then moved to NLU and lead a team to develop cutting edge deep neural network training and inference tools used by Alexa Runtime serving hundreds of millions customers. Since 2023, I have been leading my team to create AI model inference solutions, and launched Alexa’s first production LLM inference engine meeting strict latency budget in Sept 2023, followed by Bedrock Titan model launch in May 2024, and Amazon Nova models in Nov. 2024 which achieved best latency in the industry as measured by 3rd party. At Jobcase, I managed to fill knowledge gap quickly (cloud computing and ML), and built a small team. Together we built a data lake and a ML platform from scratch. I also built production ML models and became a contributor to the Tensorflow Open Source project.I joined SunQuest as Principal Engineer, and got promoted to run the 15+ people product development team in 5 months. I released quality software classified as medical device. During 13+ years at GenomeQuest, I started in a 3-person US team, innovated and built the majority of technologies. The product is used by 18 out of the top 20 pharma and all five top agrochemical companies worldwide for their mission critical IP business processes. Throughout my career, I recruited and led teams successfully delivered many commercial software products supporting critical needs for companies large and small. I am very pragmatic, and I enjoy finding effective and incremental solutions to problems, and don’t let perfect get in the way of releasing something impactful quickly.SKILLS:* Lead commercial software development team. Perform any or all roles of team leader, architect, manager.* Machine Learning: LLM Inference, Transformers, Tensorflow, PyTorch, DNN, model runtime.* AWS Cloud technologies, Data Lake, Spark, Kafka, SageMaker, CloudWatch.* Relational database, Object oriented design and patterns.* NoSQL. Cassandra, DynamoDB, Apache Ignite, Redis.* Bioinformatics applications, LIMS, Sequence analysis. NGS data analysis.* Java, Python, Spark, Javascript/Angular2, PHP, Scala, Groovy/Grails, Solr, Cassandra, Docker, CSS, Spring, MySQL, K8s, and many other 3-letter acronyms.
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