Sampson Chen
Engineering Manager II, Firebase at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSampson Chen is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building reliable, scalable core services for Firebase Cloud Messaging and Android infrastructure. Now a Senior Engineering Manager at Google, he has progressed through hands-on SRE and senior software engineer roles to manage teams delivering performant, maintainable messaging backends at global scale. He pairs deep backend and infrastructure expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the Review Board open-source project—to pragmatic leadership that emphasizes testability and operational excellence. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a history of shipping cross-platform features at scale (including large mobile deployments from earlier Facebook work) and a penchant for improving developer workflows and system observability.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
api10
webapi10
python10
django10
code-review9
javascript8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
reviewboard/reviewboard
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
An extensible and friendly code review tool for projects and companies of all sizes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sampson primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the reviewboard project. Their work focused on fixing API endpoints, specifically related to review request filtering based on the "ship-it" parameter. They modified the code to correctly handle different parameter values (0 and 1) and updated unit tests to validate the changes. Additionally, the user implemented and integrated thumbnail rendering for various file attachment types, including ReStructuredText, MarkDown and XML.
pythonjavascriptreviewdeveloper-toolsextensible
sampson-chen/sack
Oct 2012 - Aug 2017
s(hortcut)-ack: a faster way to use ag, ack (or grep)!
Contributions:43 commits, 17 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 11 months
refactoringackgrepfaster
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