Samuel Kahr   

734-546-8963 ​samkahr@gmail.com​ San Francisco, CA ​https://www.linkedin.com/in/samkahr/ 

     

  Education 
Skills   

Claremont McKenna College / ​Chemistry, International Relations 

Machine Learning 
Sept 2010 - May 2014, Claremont, CA 
  • GPA:3.52/4.0 Recipient of Interdisciplinary Science Scholarship, a full 
  tuition, merit based scholarship. 
 
  Google Applied Machine Learning Intensive 
  Feb 2019 - April 2019, Oakland, CA 
  • Part of 21 person cohort selected from over 600 applicants.  
• Developed proficiency in data cleaning, visualization, understanding 
​Languages  ML models and applying ML to real datasets. 
  • Gained understanding of ethical use of Artificial Intelligence and how 
  to identify bias. 
• Became proficient in running ML projects at scale and managing large 
Frontend Frameworks  amounts of data on Google Cloud Platform(GCP). Completed 
  coursework for Data Engineering on GCP. 
 
Bloc Web Developer Bootcamp 
 
Sept 2018 - Dec 2018, Remote 
 
• Completed coursework in HTML5, CSS [Flexbox and Grid], vanilla 
 
Javascript[ES6], React, data structures and algorithms.   
 
• ​Built web apps​ under supervision of senior web developer mentor. 
Projects  • Gained experience in software engineering workflow tools and 
methodologies, such as Git and Agile software development. 
Digital Braille
Dev Week Hackathon Experience
• ​Built onscreen braille reader that   
translates written text into braille on 
non tactile screens.  Acquired.io / ​Customer Success Leader 
• ​Did extensive market research to  January 2018 - August 2018, Foster City, CA 
ensure delivered product was unique  • Focused on making sure every aspect of a User Acquisition campaign 
and solved import problem for our  management tool met customer expectations at early stage ad tech 
target users.  startup. Coordinated with engineering team to deliver 85% of all 
• ​Made using Vue.js and Google Cloud  customer requested features on or before customer deadlines.  
Vision API.  Google / ​Technical Account Strategist, gTech Ads  
Ad Click Prediction Tool May 2014 - July 2017, Ann Arbor, MI 
Google Applied Machine Learning  • Member of technical support team for top spending clients using 
• ​Created end to end machine  AdWords/Analytics/Merchant Center. Tasked with seamlessly working 
learning app that predicts whether  with internal teams to solve customers’ most challenging technical issues. 
user will click on ad.   • In Q1 ’17 achieved 96% customer satisfaction. Solved 88% of all 
• ​Used Cloud Storage and BigQuery  technical issues in 24 hours or less. Recognized as global leader from 
to host and query data on GCP. Built  gTech Vice President for exceeding target revenue metrics. In Q3 2015 
custom data pipeline to collect data  exceeded targets by 35%.   
from front end and feed data to  • Implemented one of Google’s first self managed teams. Built an 
Tensorflow to make predictions.   autonomous team tasked with fixing business critical problem, customer 
phone abandonment rate. Innovations became model for global teams.