Samy Achour
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSamy Achour is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building mobile and backend systems that enable rapid iteration and scalable features. Currently at Spotify, he works across mobile and infra, owning libraries, services, and architecture to accelerate product delivery. Previously he supported lean teams in the dating space—Tinder, Raya, Grindr—where he focused on app infrastructure and complex feature implementation. His dual academic background in Computer Science and Television Writing & Production suggests a rare mix of technical rigor and narrative-driven product thinking. Known to work across the full stack, he brings pragmatic engineering and a designer’s sense for user-focused outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, B.S. Computer Science, B.A. Television Writing & Production, Bachelor’s Degree, B.S. Computer Science, B.A. Television Writing & Production at Chapman University
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Github Skills (38)
intern10
ekg9
cocoa9
xcode9
swift9
package-manager8
react-android8
wavelet-transform8
player8
ios8
objective-c8
dependency-manager8
image-processing7
pywavelets7
signal-processing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samyachour/Corelogic_Challenge
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:86 commits, 22 pushes in 4 months
samyachour/EKG_Analysis
Mar 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:223 commits, 22 PRs, 191 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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