Sam Wolfson
Software Engineer at ExtraHop
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Wolfson is a software engineer in Seattle with 12 years of experience building reliable systems and teaching computer science at the University of Washington. Currently at ExtraHop, he brings hands-on expertise in systems, tooling, and containerized microservices informed by prior work implementing energy-saving server management and gRPC-based services. Sam has a strong academic foundation (BS and MS in Computer Science) and a track record of converting course infrastructure needs into production-quality solutions, including automated grading using Docker on Gradescope. He regularly bridges teaching and engineering—developing curricula, lecturing, and managing TA teams while shipping backend features in industry. Colleagues describe him as practical and detail-oriented, with a knack for turning classroom projects into reusable developer infrastructure. His personal site suggests an interest in making technical work accessible beyond typical documentation.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (114)
extensible10
proxies10
shortcuts10
brightness9
javascript9
service-mesh9
telegram-bot9
fault-injection9
controller9
security9
api-management9
poller9
telegram9
consul9
microservices9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
terabyte128/taskrabbit
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:151 commits, 8 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 11 months
pythonrobot
FIRST-4030/frc-scout
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 release, 312 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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