Kim Pham
Principal Engineer at Qualcomm
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Pham is a Principal Engineer and entrepreneur with 10+ years building search, backend, and ML-driven systems across Google, Airbnb, startups, and emerging-market ventures. Born in Vietnam and educated at UNSW and UIUC, Kim blends specialist research in information retrieval and machine learning with a generalist’s ability to ship product—having moved from search features at Google to pricing and demand systems at Airbnb and founding AI-enabled startups for developing regions. Recently leading product strategy at VinAI and returning to device-focused GenAI work at Qualcomm, he focuses on making advanced models practical and widely accessible. Kim also advises and invests in emerging-market startups and mentors young talent to strengthen local AI capability—a thread that ties his technical leadership to socioeconomic impact. An early robotics obsessive and self-described dreamer, he pairs competitive drive with a pragmatic knack for tooling that scales.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Khối chuyên toán tin - ĐH Khoa Học Tự NhiênBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Hanoi University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (30)
plotly-dash10
visualization10
data-exploration10
python10
asf10
data-science10
data-engineering10
warehouse10
data-analytics10
data-viz10
apache10
analytics10
business-analytics10
apache-superset10
superset10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cohostai/ota-services
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 1 push in 3 months
cohostai/sami-hackathon
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023
Code that power aihackathon.vn
Contributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 14 days
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