Samantha Volum
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
United States
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Top SchoolSamantha Volum is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building large-scale systems at Google and Netflix, currently working on high-impact production services. She combines rigorous academic training—PhD work at MIT and an MS/BS from Columbia focused on physics-based simulation and vision/graphics—with hands-on industry expertise across speech, graphics, and streaming domains. A longtime NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Ida Green Fellow, Samantha brings a research-first mindset to practical engineering problems, bridging simulation and production engineering. Her early R&D and internship roles at Weta Digital, JPL, and Google’s Speech team hint at deep familiarity with real-time systems and applied machine perception. Colleagues rely on her for carrying complex algorithms from prototype to resilient, scalable deployments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science : Physics-based Simulation, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science : Physics-based Simulation at Columbia EngineeringThe Vivian Webb School
Github Skills (4)
kernel6
visualization5
linux4
scheduling3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
2php/eyes-free
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:6 commits in 1 month
google/schedviz
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
A tool for gathering and visualizing kernel scheduling traces on Linux machines
Contributions:2 commits in 21 days
kerneltracesschedulingmachinesgathering
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