Sam Vilain
Vehicle Software Engineer at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolSam Vilain is a vehicle software engineer with 23 years building distributed systems, embedded signal processing, and diagnostics for mission-driven companies like Rivian, Volkswagen Group Technologies, Tesla and Software Motor Company. He primarily works in Go with Kafka and Kubernetes, and has a strong background delivering event-driven architectures and real-time systems that scale from on-vehicle software to cloud diagnostics. His career spans startups and large manufacturers, shipping IoT remote management, factory infrastructure, and unified-event backends that removed databases as scalability bottlenecks. Based in Atlanta but forged in the SF Bay Area, he blends deep systems programming (C, Python) with pragmatic SRE and developer tooling experience. Notably, he architected a mesh-mode decentralized feature and a Kafka-centered unified events design that powered realtime notifications and analytics at scale. Colleagues describe him as a serial early-adopter of new tech who turns experimental architecture into production reliability.
23 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Heretaunga CollegeBachelor's Degree Computer Science and Electronics, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Electronics at Victoria University of Wellington
English, perl, c, python, c++, java, javascript, pascal, lisp, go, bourne shell, awk, sed, x86 assembly, haskell, pl/pgsql
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
samv/humanlog
Jun 2018 - Feb 2023
Logs for humans to read.
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
laravelfor-humanslogginglogs
samv/Git-DB
Nov 2009 - Feb 2012
Contributions:59 commits in 2 years 2 months
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