About

Sam Serpoosh is a skilled Senior Software Engineer with 6.71 years of relevant experience in the industry. He has a passion for programming, computer science, and software engineering, and enjoys learning and understanding more about these fields. Sam is interested in Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Functional Programming, eXtreme Programming, UNIX, Programming Language Design & Type Systems, and Cyber Security. Sam has worked with a range of programming languages including Scala, Java, Python, Ruby, Haskell, Go, Bash, C#, C++, and C. He has also shared his thoughts on programming on his personal website. Currently, Sam is a Senior Software Engineer (Community Intelligence) at Facebook, where he is responsible for the Recommendation Delivery Stack/Funnel. This involves working with reusable and pluggable components to allow a variety of products and surfaces to integrate with the stack and utilize it partially or in its totality. The tech stack used includes C++, Python, ETL Pipelines, Hive, Key-Value Store, and Thrift, among others. Previously, Sam worked at Uber as a Staff Software Engineer (Marketplace Intelligence & ETDs) and Senior Software Engineer (Marketplace Intelligence & ETDs). At Uber, he worked on projects such as Gairos (OLAP), Near Real-Time Model Accuracy, Gairos Long-Term Storage, and Lighthouse. The tech stack used for these projects included Java, Python, Scala, Bash, Flink, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Spark, Hive, HDFS, Golang, TChannel, and Michelangelo (in-house ML ecosystem), among others. Sam has a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science from Grand Valley State University and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science from Shahid Beheshti University. He also holds a Certificate in Leadership and Culture from Harvard Business School Online. Sam has a strong tech stack that includes Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Python, HDFS, Elastic Search, Kafka, ETL, Apache Hive, Java, Spark, Research Scientist, Microservices, Scala, NoSQL, and Hadoop.