Sam Blinstein
Senior Engineering Manager at Woven by Toyota
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSam Blinstein is a Senior Engineering Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building scalable simulation and virtual validation platforms for autonomous vehicles. He has advanced from hands-on engineering and technical product management to leading teams that deliver cloud-native data analysis toolchains and statistical experimentation frameworks at Woven by Toyota. Prior roles include senior engineering and leadership positions at Lyft's Level 5 division and Metamoto, where he combined collision-avoidance engineering, systems integration, and devops to productionize simulation at scale. He co-founded a data analytics startup applying rigorous metrics to evaluate scientific research, demonstrating a pattern of turning domain expertise into productized analytics. With a strong analytical foundation—BA in Mathematics & Physics and PhD studies in Mathematics—he blends deep technical rigor with practical product and team leadership. Colleagues describe him as a manager who still ships code and designs metrics-driven systems that make complex validation workflows repeatable and auditable.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics and Physics, BA Mathematics and Physics at Northwestern UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Russian
Github Skills (25)
documentation-generator9
pypi9
python-modules9
literate-programming9
version-control8
conda8
amazon8
jupyter8
notebook7
amazon-web-services7
fastai7
aws7
command-line-interface7
nbdev7
python7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sblinstein/everythingpin
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:42 commits in 5 months
sblinstein/questionbank
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:23 commits in 4 days
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