Samish Kolli
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamish Kolli is a seasoned software engineering manager with 13 years of experience building polished user-facing experiences across mobile and desktop platforms, currently leading engineering at Meta. He combines hands-on engineering instincts with team leadership, having progressed from individual contributor roles at LinkedIn, Facebook, and Meta to managerial responsibilities that focus on quality, performance, and usability. Samish has a pragmatic, user-feedback-driven approach to product refinement and a strong foundation in systems and code quality—evidenced by contributions to the widely used uncrustify code beautifier addressing tricky tokenization and formatting edge cases for C++ and Objective-C. Educated at IIIT Hyderabad and Stony Brook, he blends rigorous academic training with enterprise-scale delivery and a knack for improving developer tooling behind the scenes.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
X (ICSE), X (ICSE) at St. Francis Eng Med High SchoolIntermediate, Intermediate at Sri Chaitanya, MachilipatnamMaster's degree, Master's degree at State University of New York at Stony BrookB.Tech (Honors), B.Tech (Honors) at International Institute of Information Technology
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
formatting10
code-standards10
objective-c10
formatter10
c-language10
coding-style10
cprogramming-language10
formatters10
beautifier10
data-format10
text-format10
file-format10
code-formatting10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uncrustify/uncrustify
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
Code beautifier
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Code Beautifier)
Software Engineer (Code Beautifier)Contributions:35 commits, 40 PRs, 54 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Samish primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the `uncrustify/uncrustify` repository, a code beautifier project. Their work involved addressing issues related to tokenization, specifically concerning Objective-C and C++ syntax, such as handling `FUNC_CALL`, nested template syntax, and spacing within angle brackets. The user also made improvements to Objective-C property sorting and block indentation, ensuring correct code formatting.
code-stylebeautifiercmakebeautifyswig
samishchandra/uncrustify
Nov 2019 - Feb 2023
Code beautifier
Contributions:525 pushes, 95 branches, 19 tags in 3 years 3 months
beautifier
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