Adam Kennedy
Principal Architect - AIML Production Engineering at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Kennedy is a Principal Architect specializing in AIML production engineering with 23 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems under novel and high-stakes constraints. He combines executive-level analysis—cost modeling, technology selection, and counterparty risk—with hands-on engineering from test harnesses to dependency management, having built systems that span 100k‑line codebases, 100k CPU cores, 100 petabytes of storage, or 100 megawatts of GPUs. His recent focus is helping billion-dollar infrastructure and revenue-exposed projects adopt AI via developer workflows and agent-based production systems. A prolific open-source author with over 100k lines public and contributions to core data projects like Arrow, Parquet, Kafka, Iceberg and Spark, he prioritizes making complex systems understandable without losing critical detail. Based in San Francisco, he’s a seasoned speaker and former top-10 Perl programmer who now hires and codes in whatever stack best fits the problem.
23 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Mechatronic Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering at UNSW Australia
English
Stackoverflow
1,592reputation
89kreached
16answers
2questions
perl
top-5%
Github Skills (94)
apache-spark10
python10
windows10
hadoop10
perl10
apache-arrow10
parquet10
r10
big-data10
sql10
relational-algebra10
spark10
apache10
java10
cpan10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
PadreIDE/Padre-Plugin-FormBuilder
Jun 2010 - Sep 2013
Contributions:140 commits in 3 years 3 months
Perl-Toolchain-Gang/YAML-Tiny
Apr 2006 - Mar 2012
Read/Write YAML files with as little code as possible
Contributions:153 commits in 5 years 11 months
yaml
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