Leigh L. Klotz, Jr

Experienced large-scale end-to-end system architect with individual contributor experience in AI/ML (Custom Embeddings, LLM Inference deployment and applications, Python SK, Spark Scala, MIT GOFAI), Production Engineering/DevOps (AWS, K8S, Multi-Cloud, Colo), and big data technologies (Splunk, Spark/Hadoop, Java, Python) in startups, consumer web, and enterprise.

• Yahoo: Architect for Yahoo Mail Production Engineering
  • AI/Machine Learning for Production Engineering
  • K8S rollout
  • KPI/Key Metrics and Obervabiliity rollouts
  • multi-TB mailbox metadata pipeline
  • anti-spam observability
  • founder of Yahoo PE-Con and Track Chair for Tech Pulse, company-wide annual engineering conferences
• Quixey (mobile app search startup, Alibaba): AWS, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Web Crawling, Elasticsearch, Kafka, AliCloud.
• MIT EECS graduate (6.3)
• Studied Japanese at Harvard
• Research Staff at MIT AI Lab / Laboratory for Computer Science
• Research Staff at UC Berkeley
• Xerox PARC, Fuji Xerox, Xerox
• Dozens of Patents
• W3C Committee Chair of XForms, leading to HTML5
• Author of book on RF/Electronics/Firmware/IoT engineering projects

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