Sam C.

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My head's in the Cloud along with AI and ML. @ Anyscale
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Seattle, Washington, United States, United States
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I'm currently the Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Anyscale, a platform that specializes in distributed machine learning using Ray. The pitch is simple: Ray is the best place for distributed machine learning and Ray works best on Anyscale :).Previously I worked on Michelangelo, Uber's AI/ML platform for deep learning, development experience, and feature embeddings. The platform powered the ML solving a variety of Uber's challenges ranging from safety, to ETA predictions, to Eats ranking and much, much more (DM me if you ever want to nerd out ^3^). I'm familiar with the full range of the ML pipeline from storage, data, feature prep, transform, training, evaluation, and serving (albeit my bread and butter is still in the infrastructure powering all of the above at the end of the day).I also worked with the Hololens, Azure, and Microsoft Research teams in NLP and CV ML (eg: object detection, classification, tracking, search, semantics, and correlations to name a few), specifically around generating synthetic datasets leveraging the power of distributed computing on the Cloud.About 75% of my time working on the above have been on the infra side of things; although I've driven ML performance programs working directly with researchers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers as well! I also spent years working on Azure Government clouds, which are physical, logical, and network isolated instances of Azure for the US government at various levels of classification (from Civilian all the way to S/TS).In my college years I "founded" two startups (and am always tinkering on something. My (current) passion lies in AI and ML ^_^.

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Anyscale

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My head's in the Cloud along with AI and ML.
Sam C. Work Experience Details
  • Anyscale
    Technical Program Manager (Ray)
    Anyscale Oct 2022 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Migrated the entire customer base from a Kubernetes based data plane to an IaaS one improving reliability, performance, and network security.Built up the customer support access adding monitoring and operationalized review and execution of fixes and feature requests direct from Sales to Engineering.Drove the General Availability for Ray Libraries (Ray Serve, Train/Tune, and Data) stabilizing the API surface area enabling key AI/ML companies (eg: Canva) to productionize.Led the integration of ML accelerator chips from Intel, AMD, and Amazon with Ray Core enabling alternate capacity for Ray users around the world.Working on hardening the stability and reliability of Ray Core (the foundational layer of the Ray stack that ultimately enables the building and scaling of distributed applications) and managing the 50k+ Ray open source community...
  • Uber
    Staff Technical Program Manager
    Uber Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Drove the re-architecture and migration of the Michelangelo stack (Feature Engineering, Transformation, Training, Retraining, Monitoring, and Deployment) to a Kubernetes based stack with added capability in resilience, redundancy, and extensibility on premises and on the Cloud.Coordinated the revamp of infrastructure to support machine learning training and serving on CPU/GPUs on premises and on the Cloud including budgeting, attribution, planning, demand signal, capacity, hardware design, observability, dynamic spillover burst to the Cloud, slack capacity re-use and allocation and ad hoc capacity adds.
  • Uber
    Sr Technical Program Manager - Uber Ai
    Uber Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Drove the adoption of deep learning across 30+ of Uber's line of business including Rider, Driver, Eats, Risk, Safety, and Identity.Onboarded thousands of Uber's machine learning models to a git backed, structured, programmatic machine learning framework where feature, transformation, training, imaging, and serving techniques and code are all served and tracked.Drove the experimentation and successful deployment of AutoML on top of the inventory of machine learning techniques and artefacts to automatically and scalable find performance gains, synergies of features, techniques, and architectures across Uber's different lines of business.Lead TPM for DeepETA: the ETA predictor for Uber's businesses working with a crack team machine learning engineers and data scientists to launch innovations like feature embeddings, distributed learning on GPUs, and feature bucketization+segmentation.Worked with hard ware engineers, finance, and capacity engineering teams to provision hundreds of machines, improve utilization of the ML capacity footprint to ~95% and subsequently solve the capacity problem by moving Michelangelo to a Kubernetes based training and serving infrastructure running on top of Spark and Ray.
  • Microsoft
    Principal Program Manager - Microsoft Research
    Microsoft Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Built distributed machine learning training and inference infrastructure with Kubernetes on Azure for the creation of models by large teams of data scientists and researchers across industry verticals, particularly Novartis (Pharmaceuticals).
  • Microsoft
    Senior Software Development Engineer - Azure
    Microsoft Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Created and curated datasets from Bing for use in analytics and predictive ML models to optimize and support supply chain optimizations in light of COVID plus Hurricane Sally.
  • Microsoft
    Senior Program Manager - Azure
    Microsoft Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Productized the generation of synthetic data from Hololens for generic Computer Vision applications and engineered it to execute on top of a distributed computing layer in Azure.Built the deployment and live site systems, as well as the Compute and Storage stacks for Azure Secret: Cloud regions capable of supporting US Government Classified workloads.Consolidated and secured hundreds of core identity, virus protection, incident ticketing, token services, secrets management, and build shares required to run the Azure cloud.
  • Microsoft
    Program Manager Ii - Azure
    Microsoft Sep 2015 - Sep 2017
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Migrated AXON (Taser International) onto Azure moving petabytes of data solving challenges in verifying data integrity, encryption to FBI CJIS reqs, and network routing at the L3 layer.Designed Azure regions for the Department of Defense deploying 30+ Azure cloud and internal DevOps services, including AI technology like Azure Cognitive services.Expanded Azure Government to two additional regions (20k+ cores and 4PB additional build out).
  • Microsoft
    Program Manager - Azure
    Microsoft Sep 2013 - Aug 2015
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Deployed Azure services to Azure Government regions working with engineering to improve their deployment, live site, monitoring, identity, and security implementations to US Govt agencies spec, of highlight: DoJ and CJIS requirements.Grew consumption of the Azure Government platform from 0 to 10k+ cores, petabytes of data working with US Govt agencies including DHS, DOS, VA, NOAA, GSA, FBI, and the CBP. Automated the cataloging 4m+ Azure assets ranging from bare metal to virtual network devices for FedRAMP Compliance improving inventory time from months to minutes.Staffed and scoped the the customer support teams and process for Azure Government.
  • The University Of British Columbia
    Student
    The University Of British Columbia Sep 2008 - May 2013
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca
    Computer and Electrical Engineering (CMPE)Software Option w/ Distinction
  • Soundit Canada
    Co-Founder
    Soundit Canada Sep 2012 - Apr 2013
    Co-founder and iOS developer for SoundIT - an mobile app plus Django based backend letting our customers crowdsource their favorite music at their favorite bars, clubs, and restaurants (geo-based).
  • Swiip
    Co-Founder
    Swiip May 2012 - Sep 2012
    Co-founder and iOS developer for Swiip - a mobile productivity app that rewards you with real-life rewards when you complete tasks on your mobile app taking into account your geo-location.
  • Faronics Corporation
    Software Tester Intern
    Faronics Corporation May 2011 - Aug 2011
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca
    QA Engineer
  • Polycom
    Test Automation Co-Op
    Polycom Sep 2010 - Apr 2011
    San Jose, California, Us
    Perl Test Automation Engineer

Sam C. Education Details

  • The University Of British Columbia
    The University Of British Columbia
    Computer Software Engineering

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