Luke Kim
Founder And CEO at Basis Set
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Kim is a founder and CEO with 17 years of engineering and leadership experience building developer-focused AI and cloud tooling from early-stage startups to Microsoft scale. He leads Spice AI, creating adaptive, data-grounded AI infrastructure and contributes hands-on to its Rust-based engine for accelerated data queries and LLM inference. Previously a Principal Group Engineering Manager and Azure CTO Incubations Manager at Microsoft, he has deep expertise in developer workflows, performance tooling, and production-grade DevOps. He also advises pre-seed and seed companies on technical diligence, blending operator experience with startup pragmatism. Based in Bellevue, WA, Luke pairs product vision with low-level engineering—fixing CI/CD, documentation, and CSV processing in open-source repos—showing he still dives into code even as CEO.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at The University of Western Australia
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spiceai/spiceai
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
A portable accelerated data query and LLM-inference engine, written in Rust, for data-grounded AI apps and agents.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 1076 reviews, 251 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on improving the build, deployment, and documentation of the Spice.ai project. This included fixing a documentation link, adding and modifying GitHub Actions workflows for build and release automation, and correcting the time remaining indicator in the training interface. The user also contributed to the CSV processing module, restructuring state and observation logic.
pythondata-sciencedeep-learningreinforcement-learningmachine-learning
spiceai/quickstarts
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Quickstart projects to get up and running with Spice.ai quickly 🚀
Contributions:128 reviews, 27 commits, 43 PRs in 3 months
spicepythonpython3ai
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