Sam Tay
Senior Software Engineer at Mercury
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSam Tay is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building backend systems, simulation platforms, and developer tooling across startups and enterprise teams. He has delivered realistic network simulation and grading systems for cybersecurity training at SimSpace, commercial eCommerce infrastructure at Blue Acorn, and has recent senior engineering stints at Phylum, Sunscreen, and Mercury. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from Rust CLI tooling (authoring core functionality for a Stack Overflow terminal client and search integrations) to Haskell FRP and Postgres-backed APIs—he focuses on pragmatic, testable designs that map complex domains to efficient data models. Sam pairs an MS in Computer Science with a strong math background, and his work shows a pattern of tackling domain-heavy problems (cybersecurity simulations, automated grading, and search integration) rather than only UI or growth features.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics at Kenyon College
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Github Skills (8)
apim10
rust10
api10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
reqwest8
html-parsing8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
samtay/so
May 2020 - Jan 2023
A terminal interface for Stack Overflow
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 182 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sam implemented the core CLI functionality for interacting with Stack Overflow, including parsing command-line arguments using the `clap` crate, and later, enhanced it to work with Google as a search engine, using a library for parsing HTML. They also made significant progress on integrating with the Stack Exchange API, including building a method for querying the API, displaying the information. They also integrated with a system to display search results from the DuckDuckGo API.
pythonruststackoverflowcursivestack-overflow
samtay/thesurf.in
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
A console-oriented surf forecast service
Contributions:50 commits, 7 PRs, 46 pushes in 11 months
consolerustdevopssurfforecast
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