Samy Cherfaoui
Software Engineer at Citadel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamy Cherfaoui is a software engineer with a decade of experience building developer tooling, distributed systems, and AI-driven pipelines, currently at Citadel after impactful platform and AI roles at Oscar Health. He led company-wide adoption of a machine-agnostic development environment, built ML onboarding tooling that lets non-engineers spin up experiments in minutes, and automated large-scale Kubernetes migrations used across production services. A UC Berkeley CS graduate and former instructor, he blends strong systems engineering with teaching experience—earning a campus GSI award—and a research background in data engineering and automated ML. Based in New York, he pairs hands-on fluency in Python, Go, Bazel, Kubernetes, and observability stacks with a practical focus on developer productivity and measurable operational improvements.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (27)
mining10
prediction9
science8
viewer8
pipeline8
event-viewer8
data-mining7
machine-learning7
starlark7
python7
react7
protobuf6
golang6
bazel6
caching6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samysspace/CaveTrawler
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
samysspace/automatminer
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
An automatic "black-box" yet interpretable engine for predicting materials properties.
Contributions:14 pushes in 2 months
boxpropertiesmachine-learninginterpretableblack-box
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