Samuel Remis
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Remis is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems and cloud integrations, currently working at AWS after a stint building front-end and TDD-focused features at PLI. He has strong Java and web-services experience from roles at Ally and PLI, and contributes to major open-source AWS projects like aws-sdk-php and botocore, where he improved S3 client behavior, error handling, and EKS credential support. Comfortable across the stack, he blends hands-on engineering with a focus on robust testing and edge-case handling for distributed systems. Based in Rutherford, NJ, he brings practical experience delivering production-ready APIs, multi-region support, and credential mechanisms used in widely adopted tooling. Collected from both enterprise and open-source work, his contributions show an attention to interoperability and real-world failure modes that improve developer and operational experience.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstHampshire CollegeThe Hun School of Princeton
English, sign, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
amazon-eks10
botocore10
python10
iks10
php10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
k8s10
k10
s3-bucket10
algorithm9
request-handler9
webrequest9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-php
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Official repository of the AWS SDK for PHP (@awsforphp)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 257 reviews, 117 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on improving the AWS SDK for PHP by modifying and adding features to the S3 and other services' clients. Their contributions included adding content type updates to rest-json services, improving the error handling and testing for the S3 clients, and introducing support for flexible checksums and multi-region access points. They also made changes to the S3 and other services, including providing improvements to the user agent header and handling edge cases like empty or invalid timestamps.
phpamazonaws-sdksdkaws
boto/botocore
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
The low-level, core functionality of boto3 and the AWS CLI.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:101 reviews, 56 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to enhancing the botocore library's functionality related to AWS credentials and EKS integration. They implemented support for retrieving credentials from EKS containers, including the ability to handle authorization tokens from files. Further, they fixed a bug associated with the EKS credentials refresh and added an experimental environment variable to opt out of 100 continue with empty body. These changes involved modifying code related to credentials providers, metadata fetchers, and HTTP request handling, suggesting a focus on core AWS service interactions.
aws-cliboto3awslow-levelcli
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