Sam Spano
Software Engineer at Google
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Spano is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud infrastructure and developer tools at Google, currently focused on LLM infrastructure for consumer health research. His background spans Google Cloud billing, platform engineering productivity, and rotational Cloud SWE roles, giving him deep familiarity with cloud performance, cost, and developer workflows. Sam contributes to notable open-source work such as PerfKitBenchmarker, where he improved MySQL benchmarking, data loading, and metadata handling—skills that reflect a pragmatic, performance-oriented approach. With a dual grounding in physics and computer science from Colgate and early research experience simulating neural networks, he brings analytical rigor and curiosity to system design. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he combines production-grade backend engineering with a track record of making benchmarking and tooling more reliable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Physics, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Physics, Computer Science, Senior at Colgate University
English
Github Skills (11)
performance-tuning10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitor10
performance-analysis10
performance-monitoring10
python10
mysql10
performance-measurement10
gcp9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker
May 2017 - Aug 2017
PerfKit Benchmarker (PKB) contains a set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings. The benchmarks use default settings to reflect what most users will see. PerfKit Benchmarker is licensed under the Apache 2 license terms. Please make sure to read, understand and agree to the terms of the LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING files before proceeding.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 20 PRs, 130 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the `mysql_service_benchmark` within the PerfKit Benchmarker project. Their work focused on refining the benchmark's functionality, including removing outdated GCP-specific comments and integrating a storage size flag for MySQL instances. They also refactored the data loading process and incorporated improvements to the data loading thread count. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to use global strings for metadata dictionary keys.
license-2licensedbenchmarkingapache-license-2pkb
sspano/PerfKitBenchmarker
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:68 pushes, 18 branches in 3 months
license-2licensedapache-license-2reflectapache
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