Vincent Koc
Lead AI Research Engineer & Developer Relations
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Koc is a commercially-focused engineering technologist with 13 years of experience building AI-driven data platforms and leading analytics teams across finance, telecom, travel and FMCG. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Apache Airflow and AWS providers—with strategic leadership, having founded data chapters at Qantas and transformed hipages into an AI-first SaaS business that drove measurable revenue gains. Based in San Francisco, he now leads AI research and developer relations at Comet, while mentoring at MIT and advising Forbes Technology Council, demonstrating a rare mix of product, community and academic influence. Vincent is a frequent conference speaker and lecturer who mentors the next generation of data practitioners and has been recognised among Australia’s top analytics leaders. A pragmatic innovator, he pairs executive-level impact (board-level insights and GDPR risk mitigation) with deep technical work on real-time data meshes, model deployment and generative AI.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence Programme Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Programme Artificial Intelligence at University of OxfordBTEC National Diploma in Business & IT (Computer Software Engineering) Computer Engineering, BTEC National Diploma in Business & IT (Computer Software Engineering) Computer Engineering at Westminster Kingsway CollegeBA History and Philosophy of Art Philosophy, BA History and Philosophy of Art Philosophy at University of Kent
Github Skills (23)
apache-airflow10
data-pipelines10
python10
data-engineering10
etl10
aws10
orchestration10
orchestra10
data-pipeline10
glu9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
lambda9
lambdas9
s3-bucket9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 8 PRs, 21 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the Apache Airflow project by updating dependencies, refactoring code, and improving AWS provider integrations. They made specific code changes for AWS services like Glue, S3, and Lambda, optimizing existing functionalities. The user also worked on cleaning up and refactoring various Apache providers including Alibaba Cloud and dbt.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
vincentkoc/android-market-api-php
Apr 2013 - Jan 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 5 years 10 months
apijava-androidphpandroidkotlin
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