Summary
Sam Gehly is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building edge-focused systems and user-facing products, currently working on control systems at Fastly with Perl, Ruby, Go, Kubernetes, and Cue. He has rotated through multiple Fastly teams—from Edge Media to Experience Engineering—bringing full-stack fluency across Ember/React, VCL, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and protocol work like Adobe XMP. Sam’s background includes leading product and strategy at a startup-level role and shipping mobile and web applications during internships, giving him a rare mix of product sense and low-level systems engineering. Notably, he contributed to a school-sponsored project that tied a Rust framework, Go services, and a React UI into a cohesive ecosystem, signaling strong cross-language integration skills and an appetite for pragmatic experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, Latin, Greek