Kenneth Bier
Founder at Heron
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Bier is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-scale data, simulation, and ML systems across companies from Amazon and Unity to Apple, Klaviyo, and Meta. He led teams powering search and AI/ML for over a billion devices and scaled event and training-data pipelines that underpin production recommender and inference systems. As a hands-on engineer he contributed to notable open-source projects like Microsoft’s AirSim (adding Unity support for autonomous vehicle simulation) and Metabase (integrating a Snowflake driver), reflecting a blend of simulation, backend, and data-platform expertise. Based in London with US citizenship and UK Global Talent status, he pairs technical depth in distributed systems and ML engineering with product-driven leadership. Now running two startups, he brings developer-first pragmatism to solving real-world AI and data challenges. An unusual thread through his career is shipping both low-level simulation integrations and high-throughput data services, showing comfort across the full stack of ML applications.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (23)
unreal-engine-510
unreal-engine-410
simulator10
snowflake10
clojure-cli10
databases10
clojure10
unreal10
sql10
database10
unity3d10
c-language9
database-administration9
cprogramming-language9
cross-platform8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AirSim
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth's contributions focused on enhancing the Airsim simulator, specifically adding support for Unity. They integrated Unity scenes and assets, modifying code to accommodate this new functionality, and combined multiple projects into a unified "UnityDemo" project. Additionally, the user incorporated changes from CarApiBase and added the car name into the wrapper. These changes involved both code modifications and build-related changes to enable the features within the Unity environment.
deep-reinforcement-learningsimulationsimulatorunitysimulator-source
metabase/metabase
Jan 2018 - May 2018
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily contributed to the backend of the Metabase project, specifically focusing on integrating and refining the Snowflake database driver. Their work involved adding the Snowflake driver, correcting typos in project configurations, implementing functionalities for timestamp conversions, and adapting the codebase to accommodate Snowflake's specific requirements. They also added auto-increment support and refined database connection details.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
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