Sam Varshavchik
Software Developer at Private
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSam Varshavchik is a seasoned software developer with over three decades of experience building financial and networking applications, specializing in multithreaded C++ and Java systems as well as pragmatic Perl and JavaScript solutions. Based in the New York City area, he combines a strong Computer Science and Applied Mathematics background from Stony Brook with deep Linux/Unix engineering and production networking expertise (TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL/TLS, IMAP/SMTP, LDAP). His career spans core database work across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase and Oracle, web and protocol integration (CGI, XML/XSLT) and secure, performance-sensitive designs for trading and financial systems. Comfortable as both consultant and in-house developer, he brings a rare mix of low-level systems thinking and practical web/database skillsets that keep legacy infrastructure reliable while enabling incremental modernization. Colleagues value his steady, detail-oriented approach to concurrency and security challenges and his ability to translate mathematical rigor into robust, auditable code.
17 years of coding experience
BS Computer Science Applied Mathematics and Statistics, BS Computer Science Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Stony Brook University
Russian
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Github Skills (158)
multithreading10
stack10
linux10
socket10
shared-libraries10
ups10
inheritance10
vector10
pointer10
smtp10
luks10
mutex9
constructor9
tuples9
polymorphism9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
svarshavchik/clean-rpm-gpg-pubkey
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Automatically remove old PGP keys from the RPM database
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
svarshavchik/libcxxw
Dec 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1783 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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