Sam Brotherton

Sam Brotherton is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Reddit, Inc. since March 2024, with a strong background in software engineering and machine learning across various tech companies. Notable prior positions include Tech Lead at Nextdoor, where responsibility involved developing a new advertisement platform and migrating significant revenue from a legacy system, and a Software Engineer at Google, focusing on ads privacy through natural language processing and machine learning. Sam founded Cairn Labs, leading a team to deliver software solutions leveraging advanced NLP and AI technologies. Previous roles also include influential contributions at Whisper and earlier positions in research and internships. Sam holds a B.A. in Mathematics and East Asian Studies from Harvard University.