Samuel Marks
Chief Technology Officer at offscale
United States
About Samuel Marks
Samuel Marks is Chief Technology Officer at offscale. Location: United States.
Samuel Marks, PhD is contracted as a Senior Software Engineer at Google, working on their MaxText LLM library for large-scale training and inference on both TPUs and GPUs. Charitably, he does research at Harvard Medical School / MEEI. Aiming to facilitate mass-screening for blinding eye diseases, he has developed inexpensive medical devices and automated diagnostic tools (AI). All devices will be distributed at his own expense, with device blueprints, software, and data open-sourced and in the public domain; funded via his [unrelated to medicine] software-engineering consultancy. Also charitably, in Stanford Medical School's deparment of pediatrics he is creating new LLMs for inpatient intensive cardiac care and outpatient T1D management for pædiatrics. His recent work involved creating from-scratch new DevOps / GitOps / MLOps tooling with optional Docker, supporting: native Windows, Linux, macOS, SunOS, HP/UX, z/OS, iOS, and Android. This was written in shell (Bourne Shell, Bash, Windows Batch, Microsoft PowerShell); complemented by new package managers in C, Go, and Rust. In his spare time he writes new C, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, Java, Python, and TypeScript compilers. #rewriteInC.io Active on GitHub, he has >800 repos; constituting >500 forks—including being a top-contributor to both Keras and MaxText—and currently holds a >1024 day contribution streak.
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Additional experience
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Started June 2025
Education
- Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
- Ophthalmology Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School