Samuel Skjonsberg
Senior Engineering Manager, ML Platform
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Skjonsberg is a senior engineering manager with 13 years of experience building infrastructure and platform software for AI and high-traffic web systems, now leading Runway's ML platform to develop and serve state-of-the-art models. He progressed from hands-on roles at AI2—where he built job management, model serving, and web deployment tooling and scaled ElasticSearch for Semantic Scholar—to principal engineering and management positions that blend deep technical ownership with team growth. Samuel excels at turning research workflows into reliable production systems (on-prem GPU orchestration, inference platforms, and deployment tooling) while mentoring engineers to operate at scale. A pragmatic maker who started in web and UI engineering, he brings rare cross-stack fluency from front-end UX to cluster ops. Based in Seattle and grounded in a BA in Business Information Systems, he favors durable infrastructure that accelerates both scientific progress and storytelling.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Business Information Systems, BA Business Information Systems at UW Foster School of Business
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Github Skills (162)
reader10
python10
ui-components10
windows10
pdf-generation10
effector10
javascript10
gulp10
linux10
js10
nlp10
router10
typescript10
rocket10
allennlp10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
allenai/lm-explorer
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
interactive explorer for language models
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
explorerlanguage-models
codeviking/dotfiles
Jul 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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