David Tompkins
Senior Principal Scientist (Senior Director), Lab Director, Adobe Research
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Tompkins is a senior research and engineering leader with 13+ years focused on building and operating large-scale compute and data platforms for AI/ML at Adobe Research, where he directs the Research Engineering and Design Lab across multiple US hubs. His career combines deep technical roots from Bell Labs and Netscape through architecture and product leadership at BEA, Yahoo, MobileIron, and Adobe, delivering distributed systems, cloud services, and secure production platforms. He’s known for scaling infrastructure to support cutting-edge, large-scale research projects and for bridging research and production engineering teams. Based in Menlo Park, he blends academic training in electrical engineering and computer science from Stanford with decades of hands-on systems design. Less obvious is his long-standing pattern of moving between research and product organizations, giving him a rare fluency in turning experimental ideas into operational platforms. He excels at leading geographically distributed labs and aligning engineering strategy to enable ambitious AI research.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
PeddieBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (5)
capi10
apache-kafka9
cpp9
apache-spark3
gpu-acceleration1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adobe-research/http_streaming_client
Nov 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:87 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/analytics-live-stream-api-samples
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
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