Robin Ronson is a Senior Software Engineer in the Bay Area who specializes in making AI inference cheaper and faster at scale by combining compiler, systems, and hardware optimizations. With nine years of experience, he has driven production ML inference performance work at Meta and previously architected exabyte-scale storage and lifecycle systems at Microsoft that delivered tens of millions in annual savings and improved reliability. He’s hands-on across CPU/GPU/ARM stacks—owning LLVM tuning, compression codec evaluations, and multithreaded embedding parallelization for flagship ranking models. Robin has repeatedly translated low-level system improvements into measurable cost and SLA wins (for example, large-scale deletion and compression pipelines that processed exabytes with zero data loss). He also brings a research mindset from bioinformatics and academic work, applying data-driven benchmarking and statistical validation to production rollouts. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep systems engineering with an uncommon focus on enabling diverse workloads to run efficiently on shared compute.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at UIS
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, 3.9 / 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, 3.9 / 4.0 at Texas Tech University - Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. College of Engineering
Contributions:6 PRs, 59 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
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Robin Ronson - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft