Sammy Roberts
Software Engineer at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolSammy Roberts is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems and distributed architectures, currently based in Sunnyvale, California. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to leadership roles—most recently at Turion Space as Director of Ground Software—and now contributes at Meta, bringing startup agility to large-scale environments. Sammy has a strong track record building production-grade services with Node.js/TypeScript, databases (MySQL/PlanetScale, Postgres), message systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Docker), and has productionized RAG pipelines using Langchain and vector stores like Pinecone. He pairs deep technical execution (API design, idempotent consumers, observability) with practical product delivery—overhauling test suites, refactoring legacy systems, and shipping major releases. As an instructor in full-stack development, he also translates complex concepts into teachable practices, helping teams adopt maintainable architectures. Notably, he moves fluidly between low-level database schema design and modern ML-enabled features, bridging traditional backend engineering with emerging AI tooling.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Saddleback CollegeProject Management Certification Agile electives Project Management, Project Management Certification Agile electives Project Management at University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (84)
vector-database10
copilot10
jetbrains10
chatgpt10
fine-tuning10
gpt10
developer-tools10
application10
gateway10
vscode10
intellij10
llm10
openai10
data-structures10
pycharm10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kekeoki/shuttergram
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Sammyjroberts/kekeoki.github.io
May 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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