Samuel Karp
Chair of the Technical Oversight Board of the Open Container Initiative
- Role
- Staff Software Engineer at Google
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Samuel Karp
Experienced software engineer with a demonstrated history in the cloud computing and web services industry. Skilled in Linux, containers, Go, and distributed computing. Strong engineering professional passionate about open source, developer education, and building useful tools.
Experience
Staff Software Engineer
Jun 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
I serve as the technical lead for container runtimes and image streaming on Google Kubernetes Engine. In this role, I am responsible for the technical direction of the container runtime, GKE\'s integration with containerd, adoption of containerd 2.0, future direction of improvements to image streaming and general image pull performance, and the reliability of our offerings.Previously: TL for A3 VMs with Nvidia H100 GPUs on GKE, including GPUDirect-TCPX. TL for a program to support extremely large scale AI/ML training on GKE.
Education
UCLA
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
2008 — 2012
Skills
- Java
- C++
- Software Engineering
- Python
- Scalability
- Distributed Systems
- C
- Sql
- Go
- Docker
- Containers
- Agile Methodologies
- Software Development
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