Sarah Oliver

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Senior Engineering Manager at Airbnb · ML infrastructure

Airbnb
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
10+ years experience
Arizona State University
English
Advising
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Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Airbnb, focused on ML infrastructure. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 3. Moved 64% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Visa and Instacart. Most at home with Ray and Kubeflow.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on ML infrastructure
  • Questions about ML infrastructure
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Crypto token projects

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
KubeflowPythonPyTorchSwiftUICUDARay
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: ML infrastructure and SwiftUI

Topics
ML infrastructure, Kubeflow, Ray
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

10 years of ML infrastructure. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Seattle, WA · remote OKpytorchpythoncuda
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Airbnb · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Wrote the Kubeflow service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
    • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 40 a week to 1.
  2. ML Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
    Visa · 2 yr · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Replaced 77 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Taught SQL to 183 non-analysts.
  3. Senior ML Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
    Instacart · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Replaced 120 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. ML Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
    Dropbox · 2 yr · Contract · Seattle, WA
    • Taught SQL to 53 non-analysts.

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Education

  1. Arizona State University
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2012 - 2016

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