Karen Brems
Sr. Engineering Manager at Mainspring Energy
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaren Brems is a seasoned software engineering leader with 25+ years of experience delivering consumer and enterprise products across desktop, mobile, and SaaS, currently leading cloud software at Mainspring Energy to enable a net-zero carbon grid. She has deep hands-on expertise in system design and architecture, building cloud-native microservices on Kubernetes and shepherding products from 1.x through production while managing large legacy codebases. Karen combines technical rigor with strong organizational leadership—hiring, mentoring, and establishing high-trust teams that consistently meet committed timelines in agile environments. Her track record spans startups to $100B companies including VMware, Rivian, HP/HP Labs and Intuit, and includes inventorship on multiple patent filings. A former professional and Olympic cyclist who founded and managed a championship women’s cycling team, she brings elite performance discipline and strategic team-building to engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science (MS), Engineering Economic Systems, 3.9, Master of Science (MS), Engineering Economic Systems, 3.9 at Stanford University
Github Skills (29)
python10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
cosmosdb9
scalable9
mongodb8
bazel8
build-system8
jms8
kafka-connect8
cassandra8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
opveclib/opveclib
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
The Operator Vectorization Library, or OVL, is a python productivity library for defining high performance custom operators for the TensorFlow platform.
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
operatorpythontensorflowvectorization
opveclib/tensorflow
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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