My name is Sam and I like working on hard problems. Computers pose some interesting ones and solve a few others, but really, there are hard problems everywhere.

I’m currently a Staff Software Engineer at Aviatrix Systems. Before that I worked on Istio stuff at Google, where I served as an Environments Working Group Lead, Upgrade Working Group Lead, and release manager for 1.10 and 1.15.

Before that I interned at Google Cloud a couple of times, once on Kubernetes, where I made this, and afterwards on Istio security features. I also worked as an intern on trading technologies at Belvedere Trading and ad tech at Amino Payments.

I studied Computer Science at Northwestern University, where I researched at the DTR Lab. Before that, I worked at the Knowledge Discovery and Web Mining Lab under this research grant.