Sam Saccone
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Saccone is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View with 14 years of experience improving engineering productivity by building tooling, automations, and reliable processes that let teams move faster without sacrificing quality. At Google he’s progressed through multiple senior engineering roles, shipping improvements across build systems, DevTools, and server adapters while championing testability and maintainability. An active open-source contributor, Sam has driven memory-leak detection and performance work (drool, Material Design Lite), bundle-size tooling (bundle-buddy), and practical refinements across high-profile projects like Babel, Yarn, SvelteKit, and Chrome tooling. He combines front-end UX sensibilities with backend and DevOps expertise, often surfacing subtle performance and memory issues, and has a background in photojournalism that informs a keen attention to clear documentation and communication.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Photojournalism, Bachelor's degree Photojournalism at Ohio University
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Github Skills (98)
website-development10
ui-components10
testing10
android-build10
performance-testing10
backbonejs10
build-automation10
website-design10
backbone10
garbage-collection10
javascript10
webdriver10
jquery10
uid10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
samccone/bundle-buddy
Jun 2017 - Jun 2020
A tool to understand your bundle size and why files are in your bundle
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 263 commits, 49 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the user interface and overall user experience within the `bundle-buddy` repository, a tool for understanding bundle size. Their commits focused on adding and improving UI components and workflows. They also implemented graph and treemap visualizations to aid understanding bundle data. They further enhanced the application by incorporating features for file imports and error reporting.
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samccone/drool
Jun 2015 - Feb 2018
Automated memory leak detection and analysis
Role in this project:Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:69 commits, 23 PRs, 98 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to improving the performance analysis capabilities of the `drool` repository, which focuses on automated memory leak detection. Their work involved implementing and refining techniques to capture and analyze performance metrics, specifically focusing on JavaScript heap size and garbage collection. They integrated functionalities to force garbage collection, take snapshots, and output results to gain insights into memory usage. The user also refactored code to create a more modular and testable approach.
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