Samuel Vazquez
Torrance, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Vazquez is a seasoned QA professional with nearly a decade of hands-on experience validating consumer-facing software across mobile, OTT, web and desktop platforms. He has led manual testing efforts for major streaming products at Paramount and DIRECTV, executing functional, regression, A/B and automation test cycles across iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV and set-top boxes while driving defect triage and release readiness. Comfortable in Agile teams, he combines test design and tooling (TestRail, TestLink, Jenkins, Charles Proxy, Jira) with cross-team collaboration to keep complex media pipelines stable. His background also includes program and project management for large federally funded research portfolios, giving him a disciplined approach to tracking scope, risks and stakeholder communication. Notably, he has contributed back-end performance improvements to an open-source GraphQL Kotlin project, demonstrating an interest in server-side optimization beyond traditional QA responsibilities. Based in Torrance, CA, he brings a pragmatic focus on customer quality and measurable release outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Spanish
Github Skills (5)
kotlin10
graphql10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
concurrency10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Libraries for running GraphQL in Kotlin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 244 reviews, 60 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Samuel's primary contribution focused on enhancing the GraphQL server's performance by implementing concurrent execution for batched query operations. This involved modifying the server-side code to handle batched queries more efficiently, specifically for queries without mutations. The code changes included modifications to the GraphQLServer.kt and related testing files to ensure correctness of batched queries. These changes show an understanding of GraphQL server execution and performance optimization.
graphql-clientgraphql-javaoss-portal-featuredgraphql-serverfederation
ExpediaGroup/apollo-router
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
A configurable, high-performance routing runtime for Apollo Federation 🚀
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 7 PRs in 2 years
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