Sam Avery
Union City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Avery is a versatile engineer and startup cofounder with 10 years of experience spanning spacecraft systems, software engineering, and applied machine learning. He has led end-to-end spacecraft design, integration, test, and operations while also implementing company-wide software workflows and processes in Jira/Confluence. As an LLM and ML practitioner, Sam builds approachable models and production pipelines using Python, Julia, PyTorch/PyTorch Lightning, Hugging Face, LangChain, and MLFlow. His background uniquely combines hands-on embedded and DSP development (C/C++, RTOS, Linux) with modern ML and API-driven tooling, enabling cross-domain solutions from flight hardware to generative AI products. Based in Union City, CA, he has moved from leading spacecraft programs to roles at AI-focused startups like Inflection AI and Hark, bringing systems-level thinking and operational rigor to fast-moving teams. An underappreciated strength is his track record of translating complex research prototypes into repeatable engineering processes and shipped products.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
gridster10
grid10
vue9
gridstack9
react9
angular8
typescript8
dashboard8
javascript8
angularjs3
widgets3
test-framework2
visualization2
saas1
docker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sbavery/mykit_learn
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 11 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 months
sbavery/pseudometer
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Pseudoscience detector using machine learning
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 17 days
pythonmachine-learningdetector
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