Sam Voss
Amazon Kuiper - Sr Embedded SDE
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Voss is a senior embedded software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently shaping Linux platform work for Amazon Kuiper. He specializes in the hardware-software boundary—bootloaders, board bring-up, kernel and driver integration, cross toolchains, and SDKs—and has a track record of moving projects from chip selection to production. Sam has led platform teams in aerospace, established CI/CD and containerized workflows, and developed Python automation that shrank multi-week procedures to single JSON-driven runs. An active contributor to Buildroot-related work (including security fixes for ripgrep and package integrations for Rust and util-linux), he blends deep low-level expertise with pragmatic high-level tooling to eliminate repetitive work. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he’s equally comfortable authoring firmware and building the developer utilities that make complex embedded projects repeatable and scalable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Syracuse UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Github Skills (10)
embedded10
rust10
buildroot10
sys10
package-management10
makefile10
autotools9
linux9
git8
security7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
buildroot/buildroot
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributes to the Buildroot project, focusing on integrating and configuring packages. Their work involves modifying and adding packages related to Rust, ripgrep, and util-linux, specifically addressing build and dependency issues. They address build system configurations, including autoreconf, and incorporate patches to enable or disable features within these packages. Furthermore, the user addresses security vulnerabilities in the ripgrep package.
kernelgit-repositorymuslopenflowmanjaro
smvoss/WoWAnalyzer
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 2 months
luasuggestionswarcraftworld-of-warcrafthearthstone
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