Sam Partee

Sam is a pioneering engineer in AI. As Principal AI Engineer at Redis, Sam helped architect over 100 LLM-based apps for customers, making him among the world’s most experienced practitioners in real-world AI deployment. He led the AI engineering team that turned Redis’s vector database into their hottest product, proving he can turn bleeding-edge AI into actual revenue. He’s a major contributor to open-source AI projects like Langchain, LlamaIndex, Chapel, and DeterminedAI, giving him an even deeper insight into AI app challenges. His expertise spans from supercomputing - creating SmartSim at HPE to connect the world’s fastest supercomputers with ML infrastructure - to being the lead author on research on AI for climate science. Sam has built AI products and high-performance distributed systems and dug deep into AI theory. He knows LLM apps inside out - their limits, potential, and what developers need to make them work.