Shahms King
Principal Software Engineer at BrontoSource
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSam King is a Director of Engineering with 19 years of experience building mission-driven software that sits at the intersection of computer science and social change. Currently leading engineering at the Organizing Empowerment Project, he develops tools that enable community organizing and proven relational organizing campaigns to increase voter turnout. His career spans impact-focused roles at Google, healthcare.gov (where his team drastically reduced login costs and improved application completion), and Nuna Health, blending infrastructure, data platforms, and product-driven UX improvements. A Stanford-trained biocomputation and HCI practitioner, Sam has a track record of starting programs—like a Practical Unix course and the nonprofit Code the Change—that scale technical education and civic tech capacity. Known for simplifying complex systems, he combines hands-on engineering, cross-functional leadership, and nonprofit scaling experience to deliver practical solutions for large social problems.
19 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Portland State University
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Github Skills (151)
gazelle10
pluggable10
python10
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protoc10
automation10
extensible10
home-assistant10
ecosystem10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kythe/llvmbzlgen
Feb 2019 - May 2021
Tools for generating Bazel BUILD targets from LLVM CMakeLists
Contributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 3 months
bazel-rulescppcmakeclangbazel
shahms/kythe
Mar 2018 - Apr 2024
Kythe is a pluggable, (mostly) language-agnostic ecosystem for building tools that work with code.
Contributions:1589 pushes, 1316 branches, 3 comments in 6 years 2 months
gleamagnosticrefactoringecosystemlanguage-agnostic
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