Samim Mirhosseini
Co-Founder at SmileSync
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamim Mirhosseini is a Co-Founder and cloud engineer with a decade of experience building developer-centric infrastructure and education technology. He co-founded Docable, an edTech platform that scaled from zero to thousands of students across five universities, and now leads product and engineering at SmileSync while bringing cloud expertise from Kaleido. His work spans DevOps, micro-VM tooling, and deployment automation—evidenced by contributions to the slim project that added image publishing, network bridging, and memory configuration while navigating breaking API changes. An NC State PhD candidate and former DevOps instructor, he blends research rigor and classroom pedagogy with hands-on system design. Known for shipping practical automation and teaching complex concepts simply, he often connects academic insight to production-ready developer tools.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Coursera Verified Certificate, Android Development, Coursera Verified Certificate, Android Development at CourseraMIT, The Linux Foundation, Computer Science, MIT, The Linux Foundation, Computer Science at edXUdacity Certificate, Computer Science, Udacity Certificate, Computer Science at UdacityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityHigh school diploma, Mathematics and Physics, High school diploma, Mathematics and Physics at Dr. Moein HighschoolCertificate, Computer Science, Certificate, Computer Science at Tehran Institute of Technology
Persian, English
Github Skills (8)
docker10
dockers10
virtualization10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
go4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ottomatica/slim
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 35 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Samim primarily focused on improving the deployment and management of the slim micro-VM project. They implemented and refined a `push` command to upload images to GitHub Releases, updating the underlying `@octokit/rest` library and addressing related breaking changes. Their work also included adding options for network bridging and memory configuration, as well as fixing bugs related to the image building process.
vmsdocker-machinetinycloud-initdocker
ottomatica/virtcrud
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
:gear:📦 Create, read, update, delete virtual environments across multiple providers.
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 2 months
virtual-environmentsprovidersgearupdateenvironments
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