About

Samuel Huang is a seasoned Software Engineer with almost a decade of experience in developing microservices and automation tools. He is currently a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn and leads the Actionable Insights charter, helping Flagship teams identify productivity issues in large codebases and resolve them at scale. Samuel is passionate about improving SDLC at scale with configuration management, logging, monitoring, and alerting. He is proficient in language stacks like Python, Java, and JavaScript and is eager to develop highly-scalable systems and frameworks that get consumed by billions of clients. In his previous role as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, Samuel worked in Flagship Infrastructure and Productivity to improve productivity for Flagship app developers across Android, iOS, Web, and API platforms. He created the data pipeline for a system that reduced the time to detect build anomalies by 98% for on-call teams. He also built a personas service that enables event tracking and channel targeting for 5k+ developers across LinkedIn. Samuel led the development of an event-driven system that streamlines code review for 1k+ developers under Flagship, saving 13k hours in 3 quarters. Before joining LinkedIn, Samuel was a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, where he launched three web services with Django that enabled 10k+ partners to improve their firewall configuration. He also led the migration of app tooling to Ansible and Docker, reducing the time to configure and deploy services by 97%. Samuel automated app-level monitoring with Datadog, reducing the time to triage service downtimes by 94%. He also led the refactor of the core codebase, resulting in an increase of 88% in code coverage and 150% in performance. Samuel holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Software Engineering from the University of California, Davis. He is skilled in Software Engineering, Python, Web, iOS, infra, Javascript, Microservices, Ansible, and Docker. Samuel is interested in developing innovative solutions for a web platform that provides positive and meaningful impact to its users every day.