Sam Hashimi
Lead Platform Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Hashimi is a Lead Platform Engineer in Los Angeles with 12 years of experience designing and shipping backend systems, microservices, and data pipelines across startups and scale-ups. He combines polyglot backend expertise (Node.js, Python, PHP, Go, TypeScript) with hands-on data work in SQL/NoSQL stores and cloud platforms like AWS and GCS to drive performant, reliable systems. At Course Hero and Dave he built AI and analytics pipelines—covering CV/NLP, ETL, and Snowflake migrations—that reduced latency and surfaced actionable insights for product and fraud detection. At NeuroNotify he helped a six-person founding team create an AI agent that generates dynamic mobile UIs, contributing to a Top 10% YC Summer 2024 applicant. Sam is pragmatic about observability and idempotence, having paid down tech debt and improved error instrumentation in production-facing systems. He pairs startup agility with enterprise discipline, often stepping into cross-functional roles that bridge engineering, data, and partnerships.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
English, Urdu, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
reinforcement-learning6
deep-reinforcement-learning6
tensorflow5
machine-learning4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
Beautycounter/cart-engine
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Universal cart and promotion engine to power client and serverless functions.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 day
serverlessserverless-functionspowerpromotioncart
la-ml/tensorforce
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
tensorflow-librarytensorforcereinforcement-learningtensorflowreinforcement
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