Samantha Whitmore

Founder

2022

Founder Fellow

2022 - 2023

Member

2021 - 2022

Head of Engineering

2019 - 2021

Building machine learning software and hardware for the entertainment industry.

Head of Engineering

2017 - 2019

- Led the data infrastructure unit at Kensho through our acquisition by S&P Global and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 2019. Reported directly to the CEO and grew the team from 5 to 11 over the course of a year. Responsible for technical project planning and prioritization, code review, and mentorship of the team. Maintained regular individual contributions to the codebase. - My team developed and owned a variety of data services, including our ingestion service, Adagio, which pulls in all data ranging from web scraping to news feeds to financial price data in a standardized format from ~50 different external locations, our symbology database, and our timeseries database. (Python, RabbitMQ, gRPC, Django, Kubernetes, Postgres) - My team worked with the machine learning team to build infrastructure for their workflow including a model deployment service, a model training service, a model testing service, and a special dynamic set of resources for backfilling data if model capabilities changed. (Kubernetes jobs, RabbitMQ, Python, gRPC, S3)

Software Engineer

2014 - 2017

- Built the backend of many of Kensho’s user study applications and dashboards, as well as Kensho Now, a realtime forecasting platform. - Developed and owned our financial scoring logic, which backtests ~100 assets in ~100 scenarios in a few seconds (built using numpy, pandas, celery). - Participated in an on-call rotation for >2 years (one of four senior engineers in the rotation). Responsible for diagnosing issues on the fly if paged at any hour. Successfully resolved on the order of ~10 production outage issues. (AWS admin, Kubernetes)

Research Assistant

2012 - 2013

Worked on the lepton magnetic moment experiment in Professor Gerald Gabrielse's group, identifying sources of vibration in the Penning trap, a device used to contain and monitor the position of a single electron or positron. Designed custom vibration damping mechanism in Solidworks and built it in the machine shop.

Head Course Assistant for Math 21b: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

2010 - 2013

Served as a course assistant in the Harvard Mathematics department for 3 years. Responsibilities included running a one hour class once a week to augment the curriculum, supervising homework help sessions and answering student questions, and grading submitted problem sets.

Summer Student Fellow

2012 - 2012

Worked under Dr. Lisan Yu in the Physical Oceanography department. Developed algorithms for spatial and temporal analysis of satellite wind velocity data. Showed recent statistically significant shift in patterns over the Southern Ocean with hypothesized connections to climate change. Presented findings to department.