Samer Almasri
Senior Software Engineer at Terminal (YC S23)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSamer Almasri is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, secure systems across startups and enterprise teams, currently advancing AI and imaging infrastructure at Terminal after recent roles at PocketHealth and VTS. He has a track record of quickly turning prototypes into strategic wins—building an award-winning AI platform at IBM that attracted acquisition interest and delivering a retention-saving feature within three months at VTS. Comfortable across cloud-native microservices, performance-sensitive Java runtimes, and generative AI, Samer blends deep technical craftsmanship (test-driven development, Terraform, OpenTelemetry) with strong team leadership and clear documentation. A certified coach and top code contributor, he prioritizes automation and developer ergonomics to reduce toil and speed delivery. Outside work he’s curious about cultures and cuisines, currently sharpening his French cooking and planning to learn Indian cuisine next—an attention to craft that mirrors his engineering approach.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science (MSc), Computing Science, Masters of Science (MSc), Computing Science at University of AlbertaGeneral Sciences, General Sciences at Saint Mary's Orthodox CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at American University of Beirut
English, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (67)
interpreter10
throughput10
openjdk10
theia10
eclipse10
runtimes10
browser10
high-performance10
jvm10
java10
jit10
garbage-collector10
virtual-machine10
footprint10
omr10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samasri/KijijiMappifier
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
samasri/openj9
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
Eclipse OpenJ9: A Java Virtual Machine for OpenJDK that's optimized for small footprint, fast start-up, and high throughput. Builds on Eclipse OMR (https://github.com/eclipse/omr) and combines with the Extensions for OpenJDK for OpenJ9 repo.
Contributions:32 pushes, 125 branches, 6 comments in 2 years 5 months
runtimeextensionseclipseomrvirtual-machine
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