Bassam Safadi
Senior Software Engineer at Wealthfront
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBassam Safadi is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, blending a strong academic foundation in machine learning, information theory, and optimization (Berkeley BA, UCLA MS student) with hands-on data engineering work. Based in New York, he has built production-grade data security infrastructure—tokenizing PII across ingestion pipelines and enabling controlled de-tokenization for analytics—demonstrating both systems design and privacy-aware engineering. His background spans computer vision research and early web and embedded systems projects, showing comfort across ML research, backend engineering, and hardware-adjacent prototyping. Colleagues rely on him to make pragmatic design trade-offs around consistency and collision handling while delivering scalable data platforms.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Los AngelesIB Diploma, IB Diploma at George C Marshall High School
Arabic, English, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
backend8
perl8
avro8
java7
php6
csharp6
python6
dotnet6
ruby5
serialization5
data-serialization5
json5
atom-plugin4
apache4
rust3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samsafadi/dotfiles
Oct 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
samsafadi/nvim-cfg
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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