Sam Thomson
Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSam Thomson is a Senior Researcher with 12 years of experience bridging cutting-edge NLP research and production-grade engineering, currently based in Northampton, MA and working at Microsoft. He holds a PhD in Language and Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon and has deep expertise in semantic parsing, tool-calling agents, and code generation stemming from long-term research roles at CMU and the University of Washington. Sam pairs this research background with practical backend engineering—contributing to projects like the ParaSwap SDK to improve limit order and swap logic, showing fluency in integrating algorithmic ideas into real-world systems. His work often focuses on making complex language models actionable via tool integration and robust transaction logic rather than purely theoretical models. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves smoothly between rigorous papers and production code, favoring clear validation and type-safety improvements. He brings a mathematician’s rigor from a Cornell BA together with a track record of shipping reliable, well-documented software.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics (Computer Science concentration), Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics (Computer Science concentration) at Cornell UniversityMaster of Language Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Master of Language Technologies, Natural Language Processing at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
solidity10
typescript10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
typescripts10
api-design9
apim9
api9
exchange9
web3js9
cryptocurrency8
javascript8
web-framework7
haskell6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
paraswap/paraswap-sdk
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
ParaSwap allows dApps and traders to get the best DEX liquidity by aggregating multiple markets and offering the best rates
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 13 commits, 12 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the development of the ParaSwap SDK, focusing on improving the limit order functionality and swap transaction logic. Their work involved modifying and refactoring types, adding new fields to order structures, and adjusting validation checks within the transaction processing logic. These changes facilitated the integration of slippage and source amount options for greater flexibility in order execution. Further contributions included the regeneration of documentation and overall type refactoring within the codebase.
exchangeratesethereumdappsblockchain
samthomson/mediadump
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:127 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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