Sam Phinizy
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Veho
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSam Phinizy is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in Boston with four years of focused experience shipping ML and DataOps platforms across startups and large companies like Wayfair and Shopify. He specializes in building production-ready ML infrastructure—bringing models from laptops to cloud with tools like Ray, Kubernetes, Prefect, and ClickHouse—and has led teams that reduced per-package costs and accelerated model validation from weeks to hours. At Prefect he helped ship visualization and SLA tooling; at Pure Lithium he designed event-driven data pipelines and CI/CD with Pulumi and Nomad, showing a knack for operationalizing research workflows. Sam combines hands-on backend engineering with technical leadership and mentorship, reliably delivering scalable systems that make it easy for end users to push models to production. An unusual strength is his breadth across scientific lab orchestration and large-scale e-commerce logistics, enabling him to translate domain research needs into robust, automated pipelines.
4 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Theatre Arts, Bachelor's Degree Theatre Arts at University of New Hampshire
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Github Skills (42)
pytorch10
observability10
parallel10
dataflow10
prefect10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
workflow-engine10
reinforcement-learning10
automation10
infrastructure10
pipeline10
ray10
orchestration10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
purelithiumio/prefect-snowflake
Feb 2023 - Jan 2024
Prefect integrations for interacting with Snowflake.
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
sam-phinizy/dungeon-mapper
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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