Tom Sheffler
Sr. Technical Consultant, AI Architecture at Ecma International
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Sheffler is a senior technical consultant and AI architect with over two decades of experience turning advanced research into production systems across AI, cloud, genomics, and memory architecture. He has led multi-disciplinary teams to deliver the first multi-tenant, cloud-native LIMS and GPU-based analysis pipelines at Roche, while also contributing to the world's fastest DRAM verification and PlayStation integrations at Rambus. A charter member of Ecma TC-56, Tom helps shape secure interoperability standards for agentic systems and contributes to open-source AI platform initiatives. He co-founded Sensr.net, shipping edge-to-cloud video analytics through partnerships with Ambarella and Chicony, showing a knack for productizing computer vision at scale. Equally comfortable writing patents and low-level verification models as he is defining cloud-native architectures, Tom blends academic rigor (PhD, Carnegie Mellon) with pragmatic delivery. Based in San Francisco, he frequently bridges industry, standards bodies, and cross-border engineering teams to move prototypes into real-world deployments.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD MS Computer Engineering, PhD MS Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS EE, BS EE at University of Virginia
Github Skills (74)
foundation10
gnu10
mistral9
golang9
verilog9
vhdl9
cocoa9
uvm9
objective-c9
llm9
gnustep9
verification9
llama9
ollama8
gemma8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hinesmr/StreamProx
Oct 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:30 commits in 3 months
sheffler/gnustep-build
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Scripts for building the latest possible GNUstep on your system
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 year 8 months
azerothcorelinuxgnugnustepmanual
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