Sam Hansen
Software Engineer (Fuchsia, P&E) at Google
Napa, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Hansen is a seasoned kernel and systems engineer with 14 years of experience, currently leading the Zircon USB stack and host-mode drivers on Google's Fuchsia project. Based in Napa, he brings deep expertise across kernel, hardware, cloud, and operations work earned through roles in SRE, cloud engineering, and infrastructure migration. Comfortable across C/C++ kernel development and system-level tooling, Sam has a track record of owning end-to-end platform components that bridge hardware and OS layers. His background in both electrical engineering and computer science, plus early hands-on ops work at Meebo, gives him a pragmatic systems mindset and a knack for shepherding complex integrations from design to production. An unspoken strength is his long tenure at Google where he has moved between Android, GCP, and Fuchsia efforts, demonstrating adaptability across divergent platform challenges.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Western Washington UniversityAA General Transfer Degree, AA General Transfer Degree at Lower Columbia College
English
Github Skills (58)
symmetric10
android-things10
driver9
peripheral8
machine-learning8
4g8
messaging7
asynchronous7
moto6
communications6
edge-computing6
infiniband6
openthread6
linter5
lint5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samhansen/cadcam
Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
samhansen/openweave-core
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
openWeave is a home area network application protocol stack designed to enable asynchronous, symmetric, device-to-device, device-to-mobile and device-to-cloud communications for control path and data path messaging.
Contributions:46 pushes, 11 branches in 2 months
asynchronousrcsymmetriccommunicationsonvif
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