Samson King
Software Engineer at Benchling
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamson King is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building backend and full-stack systems for real-time, robotics-driven applications. He has delivered high-impact services and orchestration layers for autonomous warehouse robots, robotic arms, and lab automation, often owning projects end-to-end from architecture through production support. At Shopify he led cross-team efforts on Node.js/TypeScript microservices that solved inventory tracking and automated error resolution, reducing on-call load and enabling new fulfillment capabilities, and at Universal Robots he drove a web-based robot programming platform that improved developer productivity and embedded UI performance. Earlier work at Takeda and HighRes Biosolutions produced long-lived lab automation scheduling systems and safety IoT solutions that saved substantial operational costs. Based in Boston, he blends systems thinking with hands-on engineering across languages and stacks, and is comfortable shipping features that span cloud infrastructure, edge devices, and realtime robotics control.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Robotics Engineering, Bachelor of Science Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (22)
digital-signage10
raspberry10
javascript9
nodejs9
raspberry-pi8
nvim5
vscode5
neovim5
vim5
recipe5
vscode-extension5
embedded4
react3
react-native2
espressif1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samsonmking/epaper.js
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Node.js library for easily creating an ePaper display on a Raspberry PI using HTML and Javascript.
Contributions:13 releases, 16 reviews, 93 commits in 2 years 4 months
raspberry-pijs-librarynode-jsjavascriptraspberry
samsonmking/dotfiles
Mar 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:65 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
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