Kent Khan

Software Engineer at Shopify

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

I’ve spent my career working at the intersection of distributed systems and applied AI, leading projects from early exploration through to production. I enjoy tackling complex technical problems, especially in areas like model serving, data pipelines, and optimizing the path from training to inference. I care deeply about building systems that not only perform well, but are also safe and thoughtfully designed. I’m particularly interested in how we can make advanced AI more dependable and aligned in practical settings. Outside of work, I enjoy mentoring engineers, continuously learning, and keeping up with the latest developments in machine learning and systems design.

Experience

  • Staff Software Engineer at Anthropic
    Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Senior Staff Engineer at Stripe
    Jan 2020 - Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Google
    Apr 2017 - Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Machine Learning Engineer at Uber
    Jan 2015 - Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Software Engineer at Shopify
    Jan 2013 - Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos