Leigh L. Klotz, Jr

Experienced large-scale end-to-end system architect with individual contributor experience in AI/ML (Python Scikit-Learn, Spark Scala, Gofai), Production Engineering/DevOps (AWS, K8S, Multi-Cloud, Colo), and big data technologies (Splunk, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Zookeeper, Java, Python, JSON, XML) in startups, consumer web, and enterprise.

• Yahoo/Oath/Verizon Media: Architect for Yahoo Mail Production Engineering; Machine Learning foe Production Engineering; founder of PE-Con (2018-present); Track Chair for Tech Pulse, company-wide annual engineering conference (2017-present)
• Quixey (mobile app search startup, Alibaba): AWS, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Web Crawling, Elasticsearch, Kafka, etc.
• 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
• W3C Committee Chair of XForms, leading to HTML5
• Author of book on RF/Electronics/Firmware/IoT engineering projects

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