Samar Sharma

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San Francisco, California, United States24 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

165 patents issued, driving innovation.
Created $2 Billion+ in new revenue.
Won top innovation award among 70,000 employees.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions and scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningDistributed SystemsLoad BalancingGenerative AiLarge Language ModelsProject ManagementLeadershipStorage Solutions

Other Skills

Apache KafkaApache SparkBig DataBlockChainBusiness AlliancesC++CloudCloud ComputingCross-functional Team LeadershipData CenterDatabasesEmbedded SystemsExecutive LeadershipFine-tuningGo

About

Hands-on leader in several organizations. 165 patents issued. Started new projects based on my ideas and created $2 Billion+ in new revenue. Won top innovation award among 70,000 employees. Managed 20+ cross-functional, cross business-unit projects, won 7 industry awards, Delivered 20+ products, Led 6 cross-company projects, 2200+ citations of my Patents/Papers, Front Page of InformationWeek featured me, IIT Delhi High GPA Award. Generative AI: Won 3rd place in Generative AI hackathon in 2023. Expertise to algorithmically improve Click Through Rate (CTR), marketplace efficiency, search results and ranking, feed ranking, ETA accuracy, Maps Route prediction, Fares prediction accuracy, user impressions, user engagement. Gold Medalist in National Physics Olympiad, Silver Medalist in Math Competition organized by Ramanujan Society of Born Mathematicians, 1st Prize winner in two Hackathons. Google scholar lists my patents and papers here: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=2007&q=samar+sharma&oq= Skills: Artificial Intelligence, Uber AI, Uber Maps, Uber marketplace, Uber eats algorithms, search and ranking, predictions, ultra high QPS and low latency systems, Spark, Maps routing, Cloud, Virtualization, Machine Learning, Load balancing, patents, Distributed systems, algorithms, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Generative AI, LLM, Transformer model, storage systems, Kafka, distributed file systems, Redis, caching, Hive, Scala, Hadoop, PySpark, start-ups, information retrieval, recommendation systems, high scalability, sharded architecture. Worked at: Uber, Microsoft, Andiamo Systems, Cisco Systems

Experience

Uber

Principal Engineer

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Leading several projects while collaborating across organizations such as Uber AI, Uber Maps, Uber Eats, Rides, Search and Ranking, Online marketplace, Fares.
AI and algorithms to improve Click Through Rate (CTR), marketplace efficiency, search results and ranking, feed ranking, ETA accuracy, Maps Route prediction, Fares prediction accuracy, user impressions, user engagement.
Came up with new ideas, converted them into projects and delivered impact.
Deep understanding of Uber algorithms and Uber distributed systems.
Wrote backend Java code in production, that handles millions of QPS.
AI and Machine learning at large scale.
Analyzed millions of trips using PySpark.
Architected highly scalable and highly available systems.
20x improvement in peak QPS handling
10x improvement in latency
10x improvement in high availability of APIs
Managed cross-business projects.
30+ Architecture and Design documents authored, which resulted in highly impactful projects.
Made several high profile presentations.

Artificial IntelligenceUber AIUber MapsUber Eatssearch and rankingpredictions+3

Generative ai startups

Advisor

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

Advising several Generative AI startups. Large Language Models (LLM), Transformers, Attention, LangChain, Vector Embeddings, Deeplake, K-D Trees, Fine-tuning, ANN, Vector Database.

Large Language ModelsTransformersFine-tuningVector DatabaseGenerative AI

Cisco

2 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2015 – Aug 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos · San Jose, CA

Chief technologist for several orgs.
My innovations led Cisco to enter new markets with $2 Billion TAM. For example:
o Invented consistent hashing in one clock cycle at Tbps. Led and delivered ITD based on this invention, which won several awards.
o Distributed Petabit load-balancer: Invented, designed, led and delivered industry’s first Petabit load-balancer. This is a massively scalable, distributed system based on my algorithms.
o Machine Learning at scale: Invented, designed, led and delivered iCAM. Industry’s first machine learning solution, natively on data center switch.
o Catena: Invented, designed, led and delivered Catena. It is a Security, network segmentation, cloud orchestration, virtualization and secure application chaining solution.
o Built a microservice based application using open-source tools Kafka, InfluxDB times series database, Docker and Grafana.
Received Cisco Innovation Award. This is a top award among 70,000 employees at Cisco.
Worked closely with 250+ customer companies and 500+ sales engineers.
Started several new projects based on my inventions, and delivered these products to market.
Won three Best of Interop ITX Awards in 2017. These awards are like the Oscars of Networking Industry.
Won the 2017 Light Reading award for the Most Innovative Telecom Product.
See my blogs here: https://blogs.cisco.com/author/samarsharma

Distributed SystemsMachine Learningload-balancercloud orchestration

Senior Manager

Jan 2007 – Jan 2014 · 7 yrs

Led 15 projects across multiple business units. These business units had 1000+ team members. Demonstrated expertise in setting strategic directions, managing large engineering teams, advising executives, creating cross-company partnerships, building relationships with customers, mergers & acquisitions, presenting in industry forums, motivating sales teams, recruiting top talent, creating roadmaps, go to market strategy, focusing on financials.
Recruiting: Attracted the highest number of University graduates, among all managers
Started several new projects and won awards.
Led projects across various orgs such as Security BU, Application Delivery BU, WAN Acceleration BU, Data Center BU, Platform Independent OS team, Service Provider BU, Enterprise BU, Network Application Monitoring BU.

Project ManagementStrategic PartnershipsCross-functional Team LeadershipLeadership

Andiamo systems

Senior Technical Lead

Jan 2000 – Jan 2006 · 6 yrs

Part of the founding team, that grew the company from 5 members to 350 members. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems for $1.3 Billion.
Led several innovative projects in the area of storage virtualization, distributed file systems, network operating system, low latency packet processing, ASIC design.

storage virtualizationdistributed file systemslow latency packet processingDistributed SystemsStorage Solutions