Summary
Samuel Chien is a seasoned software engineer and repeat founder with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. He combines deep machine learning and distributed-systems chops with product-led execution, having led performance optimizations (4x API speedups, 40% latency reductions) and delivered enterprise-scale Azure services tied to multimillion-dollar contracts. As a founder he’s scaled startups to traction and exits—most recently driving US AIR SUPPLY to $1M ARR in 18 months—and now helps founders find 10x investor meetings at Blobfish AI. Comfortable across languages and stacks (from Swift and Objective-C to C#, Typescript, and TensorFlow), he’s as likely to design multithreaded dispatch engines as to prototype ML-driven product features. Based in Newark, CA, he’s pragmatic about shipping measurable impact and often focuses on hidden bottlenecks that unlock order-of-magnitude improvements.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Toronto
Chinese, English, Mandarin, french (not fluently)