Sam Leitch
Staff Software Engineer at Ouster
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSam Leitch is a Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience specializing in multimedia, network communications, and computer vision for real-world systems. He has led performance and architecture efforts across industries—from video-on-demand and telephony at Shaw to medical imaging at Synaptive and ML perception at Ouster—consistently improving throughput, latency, and model quality. Comfortable across languages and paradigms, he combines hands-on implementation (video codecs, low-latency streaming, point-cloud ML pipelines) with pragmatic Agile leadership that prioritizes incremental value and team health. Sam’s background in physics and engineering physics underpins a data-driven, systems-minded approach to problem solving, and he has a track record of turning research-grade algorithms into production-grade infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Physics, Master's Physics at University of Saskatchewan
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Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
oneam/pirec
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
operationredisredis-clienthigh-throughputthroughput
oneam/NetworkTests
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 20 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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