Summary
Sammi Ta is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable systems at scale, most recently on Twitter’s Capacity Engineering team after four years at Google. Based in San Francisco, she blends backend engineering expertise with operational focus to optimize infrastructure capacity and resilience. Her background includes teaching computer science at the University of Toronto and hands-on IT and customer-facing roles at the TTC, which give her a practical appreciation for user needs and system usability. An amateur stenographer and transit enthusiast, she brings curiosity and attention to detail to debugging and performance work. Sammi is also multicultural (Philippines, Hong Kong, Canada) and uses that perspective to collaborate effectively across diverse teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Filipino, Chinese