Anthony Puppo
Principal AI Developer at Goodwin
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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SeniorAnthony Puppo is a Principal AI Developer with 11 years of experience building enterprise-grade applications and leading AI initiatives for major law firms. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to Microsoft’s popular semantic-kernel project on LLM token handling and text chunking—with strategic leadership, having been the first hire on his firm’s AI development team and later leading AI programs at Dechert. His work has helped earn multiple industry awards for digital innovation and legal tech, and he’s skilled at bridging production engineering, model integration, and product strategy. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he has a track record of shipping robust back-end solutions and improving developer-facing libraries to better support real-world LLM nuances.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
sdk10
openai10
csharp10
ai10
dotnet-core10
azure-openai10
llm10
api-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/semantic-kernel
Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 15 PRs, 36 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the core functionality of the semantic-kernel library by addressing issues related to token handling and AI model integration. They refactored code to support nullable `MaxTokens` parameters across multiple classes and APIs, demonstrating an understanding of LLM API nuances. The user also updated dependencies, specifically the Azure OpenAI library, and improved the text chunking logic for more accurate token counting and the inclusion of headers in text chunks, thereby enhancing the library's usability and performance.
llmaiartificial-intelligenceopenaisdk
anthonypuppo/semantic-kernel
Jul 2023 - Mar 2024
Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps
Contributions:97 pushes, 16 branches in 8 months
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