Amarin Phaosawasdi
Senior Software Engineer at Semgrep
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAmarin Phaosawasdi is a Senior Software Engineer and PhD-trained researcher with 11 years of experience designing developer-facing tooling across compilers, programming languages, distributed systems, and formal methods. He builds practical systems that make engineers’ lives easier—SDKs, static and dynamic analysis tools, test generation, and CI/compile-time performance improvements—and has worked across big tech, startups, research labs, and academia. Currently at Semgrep in the Bay Area, he previously contributed to Google projects (including improving integration tests for the widely used google-cloud-go client) and developed compilers at Huawei. Comfortable moving between research and production, he pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on product impact and a penchant for streamlining developer workflows. Notably, he prefers to stay Bay Area–based and directs non-personal inquiries through LinkedIn.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Mahawithayalai ThammasatUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (11)
golang10
go10
devops10
google-cloud10
cicd10
testing10
dockers9
bash9
cloud-infrastructure9
docker9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-cloud-go
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Amarin primarily focused on improving the integration tests within the Google Cloud Go client library project. Their work included resolving certificate expiration issues that were causing test failures by either removing or updating certificates. They also upgraded the Go versions used by the integration tests, including setting up the correct environment, to maintain compatibility with dependencies and ensuring the tests used up-to-date libraries. Additionally, they made changes to utilize a more recent image for tests and compiled a related tool, busybench, before running the backoff tests.
golanggocloud-storageclient-librariescloud-datastore
amchiclet/compiler-evaluation-experiments
Mar 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:107 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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