Sam Kemp
Principal Program Manager Lead, AI Frameworks, CoreAI at Microsoft
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Kemp is a Principal Program Manager Lead in Microsoft's CoreAI division who designs platform and tooling to make foundation models run efficiently across any hardware through quantization, compression, fine-tuning and compilation. With a PhD in Evolutionary & Neural Computation and over 20 years in AI research and engineering, he blends academic rigor—multiple peer-reviewed publications and a doctoral thesis—with hands-on product leadership. He previously led data and ML platform efforts at Azure Machine Learning, building exabyte-scale ingestion, a Rust-based fast data runtime, managed Spark, and feature/labeling services. Sam’s background spans high-performance computing, quantitative trading systems and production ML, giving him a rare combination of low-level optimisation expertise and large-scale data platform experience. Based in London, he’s focused on enabling developers to experiment rapidly while delivering production-grade performance for on-device inference.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Evolutionary & Neural Computation, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Evolutionary & Neural Computation at The University of South Wales
Github Skills (100)
notebook10
command-line-interface10
accelerator10
microsoft-azure10
azure-machine-learning10
azure-cli10
deep-learning10
correctness10
model-conversion10
onnx10
hardware-acceleration10
azure10
high-performance10
ai-framework10
data-science10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/feast-azure
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Azure plugins for Feast (FEAture STore)
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 44 commits in 9 months
azure-app-serviceazure-machine-learningfeature-storeazurefeast
samuel100/azureml-examples
Nov 2020 - Jan 2024
Official community-driven Azure Machine Learning Examples, tested with GitHub Actions
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
cmlmachine-learningazure-machine-learningazurecommunity-driven
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