Sam Oluwalana is a senior software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building data-driven backend systems, currently contributing at NVIDIA from Denver. He co-founded Hyperglue (YC S21), a startup that applied NLP to unlock qualitative business insights across product and customer data and was later acquired by Opus Intelligence. His background blends hands-on engineering roles at AI-focused companies like Primer with leadership as CTO and principal engineer across startups, giving him deep expertise in scalable architectures, ML integration, and product analytics. Sam’s early work spans recommendation systems, social data analysis, and full-stack deployments, reflecting comfort across stacks and operational ownership. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford and is known for translating ambiguous qualitative signals into actionable product decisions—an uncommon bridge between engineering and customer-driven product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science; Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Science; Systems at Stanford University
A Terraform Module for how to run Consul on AWS using Terraform and Packer
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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Sam Oluwalana - Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA