Rimma Nehme
Partner Architect, New Project at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRimma Nehme is a Partner Architect at Microsoft with 8+ years focused on building highly scalable, performant, and cost-effective AI infrastructure for large-scale PyTorch and TensorFlow workloads. She combines deep expertise in distributed systems, OS and hardware (GPUs/FPGAs) with a strong background in globally distributed databases, having helped grow Cosmos DB into a worldwide service across 60+ regions. A founder of Microsoft’s Singularity AI infrastructure effort and an early contributor to PolyBase and several SQL Server performance innovations, she bridges research-grade systems thinking with production-grade delivery. Rimma holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA, and in her spare time writes Ethereum smart contracts—demonstrating a hands-on appetite for cutting-edge, cross-domain engineering.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computational Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computational Mathematics at Hillsdale CollegeMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Purdue University
Russian, English
Github Skills (3)
azure10
microsoft-azure10
microsoft9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rimman/Singularity-Benchmarks-PyTorch
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:98 commits, 97 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
AzureCosmosDB/CosmicNotes
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:110 commits, 108 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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