Sam Fries
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Fries is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google Search with 13 years of experience designing data-driven, scalable systems and leading large teams to deliver high-quality product experiences on one of the web’s largest surfaces. He blends deep technical craftsmanship—building maintainable systems and rigorous A/B experimentation—with organizational design and project management practices that help 100+ engineer organizations move coherently amid competing priorities. Primarily an individual contributor, he frequently leads 20+ engineer projects and decomposes complex product problems into independent, iterating workstreams informed by extensive data analysis (some of which has been published externally by Google). Based in San Jose, he pairs a nerd-level enthusiasm for management literature and process optimization with hands-on skills in front-end and full-stack search engineering, and outside work enjoys tinkering with 3D printing and craft beer.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Applied Computer Graphics (Technical), Bachelor Applied Computer Graphics (Technical) at California State University, Chico
Github Skills (72)
sphinx-doc10
python10
oceanography10
markdown10
sphinx10
vtk10
climate-science10
mkdocs10
esgf9
scientific-computing9
atmospheric-modelling9
portal9
netcdf8
mhealth8
visualization8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chaosphere2112/chaosphere2112.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:53 pushes in 7 years 4 months
chaosphere2112/uvcdat-site
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:72 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactnextjs
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