Sam Sajnani
Software Team Lead at Blueshift
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSam Sajnani is a Software Team Lead with 10 years of experience building and operating large-scale, resilient distributed systems across AWS and GCP. He combines hands-on engineering in Rust, Elixir, Go and Python with SRE and DevOps leadership, owning the stability and configuration of 410 applications and driving cost optimizations that saved $20k+ per week. Sam has a track record of impactful projects—from migrating Elasticsearch, recovering terabytes of customer data, and architecting an Elixir OpsToolkit that halved incidents, to designing RAG-based customer chatbots leveraging Bedrock and Qdrant. His background in both computer science and biochemistry underpins a research-driven, curious approach to problem solving and system design. Colleagues rely on him for cross-functional coordination, mentorship, and pragmatic automation that turns operational insights into lasting reliability improvements.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Honours Specialization Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Honours Specialization Computer Science at Western University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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214reached
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Github Skills (64)
slack-block-kit9
task-switching8
location8
context-switching8
acl8
permission8
env8
access-control7
authz7
authorization7
geo7
elixir7
bluetooth-low-energy7
abac7
spatial6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ssajnani/gatekeeper
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
Enables client-side applications to dance OAuth with GitHub.
Contributions:69 pushes in 3 years 7 months
oauth2danceoauthclient-side
ssajnani/Capacity
Jan 2017 - Jun 2019
Discover the density of people at different locations ((Project))
Contributions:46 commits, 71 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 5 months
discoverlocationsdensity
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