Sam Basu
Co-Founder & CEO at Amari
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Basu is a founder-turned-engineering leader with 12 years of experience building AI-driven products and cloud-scale infrastructure, now based in San Francisco as Co-Founder & CEO of Amari, which deploys AI agents to streamline customs and compliance for over $15B in annual goods movement. He previously led augmented reality and personalization efforts at Google, and has repeatedly launched startups and prototypes that connect AI to real-world workflows—from a profitable search-in-ChatGPT product with 17k+ users to YC-backed and early-stage ventures. Sam combines systems-level expertise (CDN/edge, cloud services) with applied ML productization, demonstrating an ability to move from infrastructure to customer-facing AI quickly. He’s an active early investor and operator who hires across functions and scales teams through the seed stage. A US green-card holder and IIIT-H alumnus, he blends global perspective with Silicon Valley execution and a knack for turning research-grade ideas into profitable, user-facing tools.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)High School, High School at Delhi Private School, Sharjah
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (117)
haiku10
ecosystem10
golang10
docker10
async9
synthetic-data9
cli9
twisted9
operating-system9
factory9
docker-cli9
moby9
assemble9
delicious9
container9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sammyshj/privly-safari
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:112 pushes, 31 branches in 11 months
safarifirefoxbrowserchromefirefox-extension
privly/privly-safari
Apr 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 39 PRs, 131 comments in 10 months
safarifirefoxbrowserchromefirefox-extension
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