Sam Alston
Engineering Manager at Facebook
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Alston is an engineering manager with 11+ years of experience building developer-facing systems and leading teams at top tech companies including Facebook, Google, and Amazon. He specializes in reporting systems, build engineering, and Java ecosystems (Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat) and has a track record of turning fragmented teams into cohesive groups with clear roadmaps and higher satisfaction. At Google he improved developer productivity by introducing new metrics and automation that reduced technical debt and accelerated release cadences; at prior companies he combined hands-on coding with platform-level reuse to speed delivery. Based in California, he blends deep engineering craft with people leadership and a pragmatic focus on shipping software that helps others do their work more easily. A long-time tinkerer with both front-end and back-end stacks, he still enjoys digging into implementation details while shaping strategic engineering direction.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Embedded Systems and Robotics, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Embedded Systems and Robotics at University of WashingtonAssociate Degree; high school diploma, General Studies, Associate Degree; high school diploma, General Studies at Green River Community College
Github Skills (49)
displays9
particle7
editors6
simulation6
simulator6
particle-physics6
physics5
imgui5
genetic5
genetic-algorithm5
javascript4
flex4
modular4
evolutionary4
browser4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
uneaty/uneaty.core
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
uneaty/uneaty.visualization
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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