Sam Shi
Tech Lead Manager - Staff Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Shi is a tech lead manager and staff engineer with eight years of experience building large-scale AI and cloud infrastructure at Google in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was a founding engineer and technical lead for multiple Google Cloud ML products—Vertex AI Workbench, TensorFlow Enterprise, Cloud ML Engine, Deep Learning VM Image, and Jupyter-as-a-service—notably driving batch prediction and Kubeflow integrations. Sam also led development of Google's internal anomaly detection and image privacy pipelines for StreetView, inventing production-grade face and license-plate blurring built on Bigtable and MapReduce. His background spans performance analysis and profiling across Google, with contributions tied to an IEEE Micro paper on Google-wide profiling. Trained in electrical and computer engineering up through a Ph.D. level, he combines deep research rigor with pragmatic, product-focused execution. Colleagues describe him as a systems-minded leader who turns complex ML research and distributed systems problems into reliable, production services.
8 years of coding experience
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at ChicagoBachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (60)
notebook10
kubernetes10
google-cloud-platform10
google-kubernetes-engine10
python10
jupyter10
data-science10
experiences10
kubeflow10
machine-learning10
ml10
kedro10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yixinshi/test
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
yixinshi/kubescripts
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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