Sam Balana
Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Balana is a software engineer with 11 years of experience and seven years at Google, where he has shipped OS-level work connecting Fuchsia to broader systems. He blends low-level networking expertise—demonstrated by contributions to gVisor's TCP/IP, ARP, and IPv6 neighbor discovery tests and NUD behavior—with front-end chops from work on redux-form and React prop-type enhancements. Based in San Jose, he navigates both kernel-adjacent back-end challenges and user-facing validation flows, making him adept at cross-layer integration. A strong tester and refactorer, he emphasizes robustness and maintainability, having prepared codepaths for protocol-state transitions and improved form error handling. Sam holds computer science degrees from Norco College and UC Irvine and brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach to complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, 3.92 GPA, Computer Science, 3.92 GPA at Norco CollegeHigh School Diploma, General Eduation, 3.9 GPA, High School Diploma, General Eduation, 3.9 GPA at John F. Kennedy Middle College High SchoolComputer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
validations10
testing10
ip10
validation10
forms10
redux10
redux-form10
go10
prop10
network-protocol10
form-validation10
tcp10
props10
frontend10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/gvisor
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
Application Kernel for Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 29 commits, 9 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to the gvisor project by implementing and modifying tests for the TCP/IP stack, focusing on areas such as ARP and IPv6 neighbor discovery. The changes include improvements to the Neighbor Unreachability Detection (NUD) implementation for both ARP and NDP, and enhancements to the existing LinkAddressRequest functionality, including unicast requests. The user's work also involved code refactoring to prepare for the deprecation of the Failed state in favor of Unreachable state, while also addressing testing and integration improvements.
containerskernelseccomplinuxsandbox
facebook/react
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
The library for web and native user interfaces.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Sam's contributions focused on enhancing React's type checking capabilities, specifically by adding support for the `symbol` primitive type. This involved implementing `symbol` prop type checks, adding corresponding tests, and addressing compatibility issues related to ES6 polyfills. Further work involved refining the type checking logic to accommodate polyfilled symbols, and removing support for a problematic ES6 symbol polyfill implementation.
user-interfacereactjavascript-libraryjavascriptdeclarative
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