Sam Kaplan
Embedded Linux Software Engineer at Rajant Corporation
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Kaplan is an Embedded Linux Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and simulators across startups and research environments. He brings deep hands-on expertise in C++, C, Python, and Go, with a track record of developing pipelined RISC-V CPU simulators, timing and energy models for supercomputing simulators, and resilient parallel runtimes. Comfortable across the stack, he combines low-level knowledge of CPU architecture and RISC-V assembly with practical cloud and automation skills (AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible) to deliver reproducible CI-driven solutions. Sam thrives in small, multidisciplinary teams where versatility matters, having contributed to web backends, database provisioning, and AI-enabled tooling in addition to core systems work. He holds a CS degree from Carnegie Mellon and has repeatedly bridged academic research and production engineering, translating experimental architectures into robust, testable implementations.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (77)
simulator10
network-analysis10
expressions10
cost-optimization10
power-systems10
trace10
processor10
sparse10
rds10
amazon-ec210
sst10
electrical-engineering10
amazon10
simulation10
modeling-tool10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stkaplan/dotfiles
May 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:4 pushes in 9 years 2 months
stkaplan/resume
Feb 2011 - Apr 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 4 years 1 month
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