Sam Guyer
Software Architect at Veracode
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Sam Guyer is a Software Architect with 12 years of industry experience and a deep academic foundation (PhD, Computer Science) who currently leads architecture at Veracode from Arlington, MA. He bridges research and production software, having served as an assistant professor and postdoc before moving into applied engineering and architecture. Sam contributes to open source hardware-adjacent tooling—most notably adding robust ESP32 support and timing-sensitive RMT driver improvements to the widely used FastLED library—demonstrating low-level systems and embedded expertise. He combines systems design, performance optimization, and mentoring from his academic career to deliver reliable, production-grade software. Colleagues know him as someone who “likes to make things” that work at the metal level and scale in enterprise contexts.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (11)
led-controller10
esp3210
interrupt10
embedded10
interrupt-handling10
c-language10
abstraction10
cprogramming-language10
abstraction-layer10
sys10
lib9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FastLED/FastLED
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
The FastLED library for colored LED animation on Arduino. Please direct questions/requests for help to the FastLED Reddit community: http://fastled.io/r We'd like to use github "issues" just for tracking library bugs / enhancements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 56 PRs, 38 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam contributed significantly to the FastLED library by adding support for the ESP32 platform. They implemented hardware-specific code, including new pin definitions and interrupt handling for the RMT peripheral to drive the LEDs. Their work involved modifying and creating multiple header and source files to interface the FastLED library with the ESP32's hardware. They also improved the RMT driver's performance and stability by addressing timing issues and managing memory.
animationledfastled-librarycoloredfastled
samguyer/ReactTable
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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