Steve Shi
Software Engineer at Samsara
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Shi is a software engineer based in Berkeley with 10 years of experience building production systems and impact-driven web platforms. Currently at Samsara, he brings full-stack expertise honed through roles ranging from engineering lead at a web-crawling startup to internships at Amazon and Intertrust where he optimized distributed data pipelines and geospatial query performance. He led a team to build Rising Tides, a React/Rails platform matching nonprofits with skilled volunteers, demonstrating both technical ownership and mission-focused product delivery. His background includes deploying containerized Kafka/Redis architectures on AWS and converting complex query DSLs for analytics systems, reflecting strengths in scalable, data-forward engineering. Comfortable as a primary point of contact for stakeholders, he combines hands-on coding with pragmatic system design to turn ambiguous problems into reliable services. Outside core product work, he has applied his EECS training to creative projects like patient-facing educational games, showing a knack for human-centered technical solutions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese
Github Skills (49)
realtime9
adaptation9
graphql9
go8
nintendo8
in-progress8
go-framework7
golang7
switch7
scrapy6
react5
neovim-plugin5
neovim5
scrolling5
firmware5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
steveshi7/yueran
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
steveshi7/text-roulette
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 6 branches in 5 days
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