# Karl Whitford-Pollard

> --Senior Software Engineer in A.I and Distributed Systems

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/karl

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Development Engineer @ United States Department of Defense
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Sorry, can’t talk about it.

### Principal Software Development Engineer @ EinstAI Inc
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Responsible for overseeing the beta release of DiabloGPT3 in allegiance with OpenAI and Microsoft; Developed A Hybrid Full-Text Semantic Search based Persistence layer for Discrete Key-value Exchange in Quantum Networks with adaptability to Microwave (5G) Thz Spectra.

### Senior Lead Software Engineer @ OpenAI
Jan 2021 – Present
Building Conv2SQL, PL2SQL, and Conv2AI models for semantic knowledge base full text heuristics and global; temporal, and causal consistent random walks in sparse networks within IPFS. My job is to streamline the GPT3 DaVinci, Babbage, etc stack incl. DALL-E to fit the needs of Web3 and to explore the benefits of Permissioned Ledgers for Automated Machine Learning Pipelines.

### Senior Database Specialist @ Whtcorps Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
I built the critically acclaimed EinsteinDB suite including MilevaDB a Memristor-based Hybrid Compute and Storage bitarray Golang scripting engine; VioletaBFT’s Haskell to Rust Byzantine Fault Tolerant Multi-Raft engine; FIDel’s Federated Cluster Manager and Kubernetes Expert Model powered by OpenAI’s GPT3. EinsteinDB was founded with the intention of bringing row-switched Horizontally scalable Chaos-resistant databases to Companies like Uber and Netflix.

### Contract Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
Worked extensively with the team overseeing Code Revision, Licensing; With OCaml, we were able to create type-safe binary efficient certificate authorities for nodes in Bipartite graphs, establishing resilient protocols for TCP/IP, and live networking environments for both LAN/WAN mostly in the wild.

### Open Source Developer @ IOTA
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Miami, Florida, United States
Porting Lots of Monorepo dependencies to modular forms with Rustpeg and Then writing APIs for MQTT servers with Rust, TypeScript, Perl, Some Php, and using CockroachDB exclusively to fulfill Vendor requirements of contract.

### SDE @ Amazon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Cruz, California, United States
Working on Open Sourcing LEX which is now under the Alexa Skills NLP department. Worked mostly with Engineers focused on porting to mobile the ALEXa experience for both IOS and Android by pushing the boundaries of Monodevelop with C#/.NET and then transducing the byte code to cocoa or objective-C. Had some exposure with Swift, but my team was comprised mostly of Java and C engineers.


## Education
### Computer Programming in Specific Applications
Stanford University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### Associate of Science - AS in Nanotechnology
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Bsc in Computational Physics
DePaul University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karl-whitford-pollard-b5a4b3253

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Last updated: 2026-03-20