Sam Ware
Senior Software Engineer at Roblox
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSoftware Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend and DevOps engineering, known for pragmatic contributions to production deployment systems. Notable open-source work includes meaningful enhancements to Pinterest’s Teletraan—adding logging, timeout handling, security headers (CSP/PRR), token-leak protections, and UX/API fixes—that improved stability, observability, and security of large-scale deploy tooling. Comfortable operating at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and developer experience, with a penchant for strengthening systems against real-world failure modes. Described as a reclusive programmer, they quietly prioritize reliability and secure defaults, often surfacing issues that prevent costly production incidents.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at DigiPen Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
python10
security9
cicd8
apidoc7
api7
django6
java5
javas5
javascript4
css3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/teletraan
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Teletraan is Pinterest's deploy system.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to the Teletraan deploy system by adding features for timestamp logging and timeout functionalities, improving the stability and logging capabilities of the deployment scripts. They also addressed a critical bug by fixing the build marking process. Furthermore, they implemented security enhancements, adding CSP (Content Security Policy) and PRR (Pragma, Cache-Control, Expires) configurations, and also added additional checks in the code to avoid revealing access tokens on errors, increasing the robustness and security of the system. Finally, they improved the user experience by adding a button to copy the hostname and fixing API docs.
dockerpinterest
TheLat/MemoryManager
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:74 commits, 3 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 month
fragmentationmemorycppgarbage-collectionspeed
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