Kayla Ames
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKayla Ames is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 10 years of experience building cloud and high-performance computing systems, currently leading Responsible AI and the Azure AI Evaluation Service at Microsoft. She defined the V2 REST API for Azure Machine Learning and has deep hands-on experience across Azure ML, Service Fabric, and container networking. Earlier work at Intel focused on low-latency, scalable networking for AI frameworks and contributing to OFI/Libfabric and OpenSHMEM innovations, reflecting strong systems and parallel computing roots. Kayla pairs production-facing API and service design with a research-backed background (MS, UC San Diego) and a master’s thesis on energy-efficient HPC architectures, a blend that helps her solve both algorithmic and operational challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at UC Davis
Github Skills (22)
minecraft10
middleware10
python10
azure-sdk10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
parallel-computing10
rest10
fabric10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
networking9
hpc9
ucx9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kseager/azure-rest-api-specs
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:1 review, 280 pushes, 35 branches in 4 years 4 months
microsoft-azurerestrest-api
kseager/libfabric
Mar 2016 - Nov 2018
Open Fabric Interfaces
Contributions:143 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 8 months
interfacesminecraftfabric
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