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.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Robotics Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
nodejs-library10
html10
raspberry-pi9
robotics8
vscode6
vscode-extension6
recipe5
neovim4
vim4
nvim3
react3
react-native2
arduino2
espressif1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samsonmking/BionicCactus
May 2017 - Jan 2019
Robotic lighting and watering for house plants that's configurable through a simple web interface
Contributions:98 commits, 79 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
robotics
samsonmking/dotfiles
Mar 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:65 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
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