Sam Shah
VP Of Engineering at Independent
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Shah is a technical executive and entrepreneur with 13+ years building and scaling AI-driven data products and engineering organizations to hundreds of engineers and billions in ARR. As VP of Engineering at Databricks he led teams across Applied AI, Data Platform, and Monetization, shipping LakehouseIQ, Databricks Dolly, and a SaaS transition while helping grow revenue from $425M to $2.4B ARR. He co-founded SkipFlag (acquired by Workday) where his team built the first enterprise knowledge graph that processed hundreds of millions of documents daily, and he later led its integration to drive AI-enabled HR and finance services to hundreds of customers. A PhD in distributed systems and search, Apache committer and co-creator of Apache DataFu, Sam has productionized novel research across search, recommendation, NLP and knowledge graphs and holds 30+ patents. He also applied his modeling skills to civic problems, contributing COVID-19 epidemic models used by California and federal agencies that influenced policy. Based in San Francisco, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with a track record of turning research into revenue-driving, large-scale products.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (13)
java9
scala9
kafka9
apache-kafka9
forecasting9
kafka-consumer8
python8
apache7
machine-learning7
data-science6
nlp4
natural-language-processing3
spacy2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samshah/COVIDScenarioPipeline
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Public shared code for doing scenario forecasting and creating reports for various governmental entities.
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
forecastingreportspythondata-sciencescenario
HopkinsIDD/COVIDScenarioPipeline
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Public shared code for doing scenario forecasting and creating reports for various governmental entities.
Contributions:106 commits, 35 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 months
forecastingreportspythondata-sciencescenario
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