Sam Gavis-hughson
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Gavis-hughson is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, currently focused on automating DynamoDB deployments across new AWS regions at Amazon Web Services. He combines cloud-native backend expertise in Go and Java with practical experience in payments, observability (ELK), and mobile SDKs from prior roles at Yext. As founder of Byte by Byte, Sam grew a bootstrapped interview coaching business to over 2,000 paying students and $2M+ in revenue, translating deep algorithm and system-design knowledge into effective curricula. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Princeton and brings both operator-level production experience and entrepreneurial product sense to cross-functional engineering challenges. An interesting throughline: he moves between hands-on coding of compliance-critical systems and scalable education products, showing an unusual blend of technical depth and customer-focused teaching.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Princeton High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Princeton University
French
Github Skills (21)
byte10
searching-algorithms8
coder8
java8
strings8
javascript7
aem7
python7
data-structures7
cpp7
soy-templates6
dynamic-programming5
closure5
golang3
testing2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
samgh/DynamicProgrammingEbook
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
Full code for Dynamic Programming for Interviews
Contributions:3 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
pythoncppcoderdynamic-programmingcompetitive-programming
samgh/CodingInterviewMastery
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 5 months
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