Summary
Maher Samawi is a Senior Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient backend systems, CI/CD pipelines, and device-level software. At Intuit he designed Java-based APIs and Kafka integrations to migrate tokens and manage consents at scale, while earlier roles at Viasat combined embedded C/C++ work, cross-compilation for OpenWrt, and DevOps automation to accelerate release cycles. He brings full-stack fluency—Python, Java, SQL, AWS, Jenkins—and a track record of turning operational pain points into measurable improvements, such as cutting deployment time and halving configuration release windows. Equally comfortable in system-level debugging and high-level platform design, he’s known for leading retrospectives and training peers to drive team adoption of new tooling. A UI-to-kernel thinker, he blends networking and distributed-systems insight from his LSST and modem-platform projects with pragmatic production experience.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign