Sam Burnett
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Burnett is a Staff Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 14 years of experience specializing in network reliability, performance measurement, real user monitoring, and digital experience monitoring. At Google since 2011 (full-time from 2014), he led Network Connectivity Center as Technical Lead and now drives advanced network engineering at staff level across cloud infrastructure. His background blends deep research—PhD work at Georgia Tech—with product-grade systems engineering, giving him a strong footing in both measurement methodology and scalable network abstractions. He is drawn to turning noisy, real-world telemetry into actionable signals that improve user experience and operational resilience. Colleagues value his ability to bridge academic rigor with pragmatic delivery on large distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Georgia TechBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (19)
network-error-logging9
traceroute8
cisco7
logging6
napalm6
network-monitoring6
collector6
network-analysis6
filtering5
reporter5
ips5
browser4
api4
openwrt3
java2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
projectbismark/bismark-passive
Sep 2011 - May 2012
Contributions:124 commits in 7 months
projectbismark/censorscope
Nov 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:120 commits in 6 months
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