Sahn Lam
Author And Cofounder at ByteByteGo
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSahn Lam is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, now cofounder and author at ByteByteGo. He co-wrote the best-selling system design interview series, runs a 500k+ subscriber YouTube channel and newsletter, and translates deep technical concepts into accessible learning products. Previously a staff engineer at Discord and a senior architect across roles at Ubiquity6 and Zynga, he has led cross-functional teams spanning frontend, backend, mobile, CI/CD, and machine learning infrastructure. His track record includes rebuilding high-throughput analytics and messaging pipelines, slashing CI times dramatically, and shipping production networking and social systems for consumer-scale products. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and trained in EECS at UC Berkeley, he combines hands-on debugging of low-level performance issues with product-focused system design and developer tooling. An uncommon strength is his ability to move fluidly between shipping mission-critical ops fixes and creating educational content that scales engineering knowledge.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS EECS, BS EECS at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (121)
amazon-kinesis10
gnu-make10
cloud-computing10
gif-animation10
apng10
animated10
react-native-module10
webp10
foreign10
native-module10
command-line-tool10
codepush10
window-manager10
firebase10
computer-science10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
slam/dotfiles
Aug 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:69 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
slam/yabaictl
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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