Nadav Samet
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarNadav Samet is a senior engineering manager with 16 years of experience building scalable, resilient distributed systems and staying close to the code. He has led platform and infrastructure teams at LinkedIn, Databricks and Google, shipping large-scale projects from a full Messaging Platform rebuild to Gen AI evaluation tooling and RPC/configuration frameworks for hundreds of services. A mathematician by training, he brings rigorous problem-solving to practical trade-offs between robustness and time-to-market. Nadav is an expert Scala engineer (10+ years) and the creator of the widely used ScalaPB project that brought Protocol Buffers and gRPC to the Scala ecosystem, adopted at companies like Amazon and Databricks. He pairs SRE-minded reliability with product-focused delivery and a track record of influencing cross-org change and operational cost savings. Based in Cupertino, he also notes an unusual identity coincidence: another Nadav Samet in the Bay Area co-founded TrueAccord with him.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
back-end-development10
grpc10
protocol-buffers10
scala10
java9
scalajs9
javas9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
scalapb/ScalaPB
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
Protocol buffer compiler for Scala.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 releases, 84 reviews, 1664 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nadav primarily contributed to the ScalaPB project, focusing on enhancing its capabilities. Their work involved updating the protobuf-java dependency, making the project compatible with new Java features, and extending the library to support gRPC. The changes involved creating or updating various methods and classes within the project related to handling different types of request and response, as well as introducing features such as sealed oneof requests.
compilerprotocol-buffersscalascalapb
thesamet/ansible-kubernetes-coreos
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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