Sam Suen
Co-Founder CEO at Owlery
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Suen is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building high-impact products across startups and hypergrowth companies from Apple and Microsoft to Uber Freight and his current startup Owlery. As Co-Founder/CEO he pairs operator experience with deep technical chops—having led Driver Intelligence and Expansion teams at Uber that built data pipelines, ML-driven insights, and international product scaling. He’s a pragmatic engineer who has shipped mobile and backend systems (including contributions improving stability to the popular MailCore2 email library) and who treats people and organizational design as the hardest, most important problems. Based in San Francisco and active as an LP at Firsthand Ventures, he blends product intuition, hands-on debugging, and a knack for translating complex technical work into business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSE Computer Engineering, MSE Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinMaster in Go Figure it out Yourself, Master in Go Figure it out Yourself at Queen's College
Github Skills (6)
memory-management10
objective-c10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization9
imap8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MailCore/mailcore2
Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
MailCore 2 provide a simple and asynchronous API to work with e-mail protocols IMAP, POP and SMTP. The API has been redesigned from ground up.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on improving the stability and reliability of the mailcore2 library. Their contributions involved fixing potential memory leaks, removing unused variables, and adding performance tracing for better monitoring. They also made code improvements, like adding null checks, to prevent unexpected errors.
protocolsapimailsmtpasynchronous
yuklai/mailcore2
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 25 days
protocolsapimailsmtpasynchronous
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