Emily Webber
Principal ML specialist solutions architect on the AWS Trainium team at Annapurna Labs; author
- Principal machine learning specialist solutions architect, AWS Trainium team, Amazon Web Services (Annapurna Labs)12
Emily Webber is a principal machine learning specialist solutions architect on the AWS Trainium team within Annapurna Labs. In August 2026, Webber co-wrote Amazon Science's announcement of the AWS Trainium Frontier competition, in which teams build language models from scratch on Trainium under a fixed training budget, with a finalist event at NeurIPS 2026. Webber is the author of the 2023 Packt book Pretrain Vision and Large Language Models in Python, whose MIT-licensed companion repository walks through preparing, training, fine-tuning, evaluating and deploying foundation models on Amazon SageMaker.123
Work
Pretrain Vision and Large Language Models in Python (book and companion code) (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Author of the 2023 Packt book; the MIT-licensed companion repository covers dataset and model preparation, distributed training on SageMaker, fine-tuning and evaluation, bias detection, hosting and MLOps.32
AWS Trainium Frontier competition (external site: amazon.science)
Co-author of the August 2026 Amazon Science announcement of the competition, which asks teams to co-design language models and kernels for Trainium chips.1
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