Samy Al Bahra
Vice President Of Engineering at Sauce Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarSamy Al Bahra is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder turned Vice President of Engineering at Sauce Labs with 15+ years building high-performance, scalable systems. He led Backtrace from startup to acquisition, delivering error management and observability products used by customers like Amazon, Electronic Arts, and Verizon. Earlier roles at AppNexus and Message Systems showcase deep expertise in non-blocking, NUMA-friendly architectures and capacity planning that scaled systems to billions of impressions. Samy is the founder and principal contributor to the Concurrency Kit, an open-source C library of lock-free data structures and memory-reclamation primitives relied on by performance-critical projects. He combines hands-on systems programming—optimizing atomics, lock-free hash sets and scheduling frameworks—with strategic product execution across the SDLC. Based in New York, he blends research-era work on UPC and heterogeneous computing with pragmatic operational improvements that materially raised throughput and efficiency.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
c1710
hashtable10
concurrent-programming10
c1110
performance-optimization10
multithreading10
atomic10
atomics10
memory-management9
freebsd7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
concurrencykit/ck
Sep 2012 - Jun 2021
Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking (including lock-free) data structures designed to aid in the research, design and implementation of high performance concurrent systems developed in C99+.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 648 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Samy primarily contributed to the Concurrency Kit project by implementing and optimizing lock-free data structures, specifically focusing on the `ck_hs` hash set and related features. Their contributions include adding functionality such as `ck_hs_apply` and `ck_hs_move`, improving code structure, and addressing potential race conditions. Furthermore, the user added coverage and improvements for atomics and locks like the `ck_swlock` and `ck_brlock`, and also worked on general optimizations to improve performance of existing primitives.
memorylockmemory-reclamationprimitivesconcurrent
abelmathew/ck
Feb 2011 - Sep 2012
Contributions:310 commits in 1 year 6 months
lock-freememorylockconcurrencymemory-safe
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