Samuel Villavicencio
Software Engineer at Weights & Biases
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Villavicencio is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems that directly help people, from classroom tools at Khan Academy to payment platforms at Toast that processed roughly $700M. He specializes in translating product specs into reliable integrations and platform frameworks, having led Click to Pay integration and the Simplified Payments Integration efforts. Comfortable across web, Go services, and GraphQL, he has driven large-data migrations and API redesigns while mentoring junior engineers into full-time contributors. Now at Weights & Biases in San Francisco, he brings a pragmatic focus on shipping secure, scalable features that move metrics and improve user workflows. An educator at heart, he pairs engineering rigor with a knack for turning technical work into tangible benefits for students, teachers, and small business operators.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at California State University, Monterey BayAssociate of Arts - AA Language and Rationality, Associate of Arts - AA Language and Rationality at Hartnell College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (114)
measurement10
code-completion10
oceanography10
vagrant10
measurements10
visualization10
virtual-machine10
sar10
javascript9
markdown9
linux9
database9
spotify-api9
hydrology9
code-analysis9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
samuelrey/forkit
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
A command-line tool to help people get through the meta-work of contributing to open source projects.
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
command-line-toolpythonmetahelp-peoplecli
samuelrey/spot-the-bot
May 2021 - Nov 2021
Build collaborative playlists with friends from discord.
Contributions:6 PRs, 45 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
discord-jsdiscorddiscord-botmusiccollaborative
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