Sam Thiesen
Software Engineer at Google
Germany
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Top SchoolSam Thiesen is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience, currently at Google and completing a BSc(Hons) in Computer Science from Robert Gordon University. He focuses on machine learning, NLP, and machine vision, combining academic research—where he built sentiment-analysis pipelines and interactive visualisations—with production-facing reliability and authentication work at Google. Sam has contributed to high-profile open-source testing efforts for web platform specs, improving edge-case coverage and test helpers for the Multi Apps/Sub Apps APIs. He also has practical automation experience from Visa, where his Python testing tool cut biannual test time by 25 hours. Passionate about building inclusive tech communities, he’s taken leadership roles as a school officer and ambassador to support underrepresented students. Colocated in Germany, he brings a blend of research curiosity, test-focused engineering rigor, and a track record of shipping measurable productivity improvements.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons), Computer Science, BSc(Hons), Computer Science at Robert Gordon University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
web-development10
test-automation10
testing10
browser9
html8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the test suite for the Web platform specifications, focusing on the "Sub Apps" API. They modified existing tests to check for error conditions and edge cases, ensuring the robustness of the API. The user also implemented and improved helper functions, refactoring and improving existing tests to ensure correctness and readability. Furthermore, the user updated the tests for the "list" and "remove" functionalities, ensuring consistency and completeness in the test coverage for the "Multi Apps" feature.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
Samrthi/peoplemath
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Web application for team planning
Contributions:2 PRs, 84 pushes, 11 branches in 2 months
djangoplanningweb-application
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