Samuel Chu
Senior Technical Program Manager at Cruise
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Chu is a Senior Technical Program Manager based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience bridging hands-on software engineering and program leadership across autonomous vehicle and embedded systems teams. He started as a developer on GPS and avionics-related projects and evolved into managing complex programs at Aptiv, Motional, and now Cruise, combining deep familiarity with C/C++/Python and Linux with MBA-level product and stakeholder acumen. Samuel contributes to open-source geospatial UI work—implementing UPS coordinate and map fixes in the DDF project—highlighting a rare blend of front-end mapping expertise and security-minded refactoring. Known for turning technical complexity into customer-facing demonstrations, he thrives at the intersection of systems engineering, cross-functional coordination, and pragmatic delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of California, RiversideMBA, MBA at USC Marshall School of Business
Github Skills (11)
css10
uid10
javascript10
ddf10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
java9
javas9
saml7
osgi6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codice/ddf
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 18 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the DDF framework, specifically concerning the geospatial search and map-related components. They implemented new features related to UPS coordinates and bounding boxes, resolving issues with drawing functionalities in UPS space. Furthermore, the user migrated map settings components to React and updated several CSS and wording aspects to improve the search UI. They also addressed security improvements and code refactoring based on static analysis.
codicecssosgisaml2framework
samuelechu/gcloudApp
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:865 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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