Radu Kopetz
Principal Engineering Manager, Azure AI at Microsoft
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRadu Kopetz is a Principal ML Engineer at Microsoft specializing in Azure OpenAI and multimodal post-training, with over 16 years in software and a decade focused on AI infrastructure and leadership. He has led cross-disciplinary teams to build foundational computer vision and multimodal capabilities in Azure ML, and architected HyperDrive, a distributed hyperparameter tuning system that drove significant GPU usage at scale. His background spans search ranking systems at Bing and Yahoo to graph-based recommendations and embedded device security research, giving him a rare blend of production-grade ML, distributed systems, and applied research experience. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs a PhD in Computer Science with hands-on engineering and people management, consistently shipping scalable backend infrastructure for product integration. Notably, he balances deep technical ownership with product-minded delivery, moving experimental models into reliable cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at National Polytechnic Institute of LorraineEngineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at Politehnica University of Bucharest
English, French, Romanian
Github Skills (71)
notebook10
interoperability10
python10
mxnet10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
azure-machine-learning10
deep-learning10
azure-sdk10
onnx10
ml10
sdk10
neural-network10
azure10
data-science10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
swatig007/automlForImages
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Azure ML AutoML for computer vision tasks
Contributions:14 reviews, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 months
visiondeep-learningazure-mlcomputer-visionmachine-learning
raduk/tensorflow_tests
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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