Sam Pullara
Managing Director at Gene Network Sciences
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Pullara is a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures with 21 years of technology experience, investing in and partnering with engineering teams building enterprise infrastructure, cloud enablement, and security platforms. He blends venture insight with deep hands-on engineering and founder experience—having founded Wavefront (acquired by VMware), co‑founded Bagcheck (acquired by Twitter), and held platform and architecture leadership roles at Twitter and Yahoo. An active open-source contributor, his work includes core Groovy language improvements, mustache.java templating, IntelliJ Scala plugin optimizations, and high-performance Java deep-cloning enhancements, reflecting a focus on performance and compatibility. Based in Los Altos, he seeks startups attacking hard technical problems in large markets—databases, storage, compute, SaaS and cloud-native tooling. With an MS in Physics and a track record of turning systems research into commercial products, he brings analytical rigor, systems-level expertise, and operational experience to founder teams.
22 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMS, Physics, MS, Physics at Northwestern University
Github Skills (32)
unit-testing10
groovy10
template-engine10
file-parsing10
intellij-idea10
data-structure10
java10
scala210
scala10
regular-expression10
javas10
parsing10
html-parsing10
performance-optimization10
intellij-plugin10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
spullara/mustache.java
May 2010 - Aug 2022
Implementation of mustache.js for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:653 commits, 47 PRs, 184 pushes in 12 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the core logic and implementation of the mustache.java library. They focused on adding new features, such as inverted sections, and fixing existing bugs related to various aspects of the template parsing and execution. Their work included modifications to classes such as `MustacheCompiler` and `Mustache`, demonstrating a deep understanding of the library's internal workings and intended functionality. The user’s contributions also extended to improving the efficiency and robustness of the core template handling process.
guiceunderscoremustachemustache-jsjava
groovy/groovy-core
Nov 2003 - Jul 2005
former home of the groovy programming language, moved to https://github.com/apache/groovy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:200 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to the core Groovy language, focusing on improving the core functionality of the language. Their work involved fixing bugs in the Groovy language's internal workings. They implemented new features like verbatim GStrings, and regular expression support, and improved the template system.
groovyapachecompilerprogramming-languageinterpreter
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