# Michael Samper

> Full-Stack Software Engineer | ex-Twitter

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelsamper

Full-stack software engineer previously working on developing the experimentation platform at Twitter with a cross functional team of data engineers, data scientists, and full-stack engineers.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ GrowthBook (YC W22)
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Twitter
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
◆ Worked as a full-stack engineer on Twitter’s experimentation
platform with a cross-functional team of data engineers, data scientists, full-stack engineers, and a product manager
◆ Led and worked on a 2 quarter-long 3 person project to implement an experiment taxonomy & create a new, customer journey aligned, experiment wizard interface in React, eliminating 20+ experiment tracking spreadsheets and centralizing experiment institutional knowledge
◆ Designed and implemented GraphQL queries/mutations and resolvers for experiment taxonomy metadata R/W and an extensible mySQL data model to support 10+ quarterly changes on average to required metadata collection
◆ Enabled team knowledge sharing through artifacts including 4 technical design documents, a new team bug bash process doc, and a migration planning document with LoE estimates
◆ Supported a migration from a Scala REST API to a Node.js GraphQL API, resulting in a 99% decrease in build time and a 150% dev velocity increase
◆ Mentored and supported an intern over a 12 week period with a project to sort over 15,000 experiments by impact to the most important company metrics, using BigQuery as a new backend datasource and Elasticsearch for search
◆ Served on-call debugging prod issues with ETL pipelines and the experiment dashboard, answering hundreds of customer questions about A/B testing, and leading 2 successful postmortems

### Software Engineer I @ Twitter
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
◆ Incorporated a new workflow into existing React components, wrote Scala REST APIs to allow users to record thousands of ship decisions and snapshot experiment results, and introduced onion architecture
◆ Contributed to a Twitter component library used by 30+ internal/external web apps by providing typing for several untyped components
◆ Led tech debt reduction regularly, refactoring code, migrating untyped files to Typescript, and using modern React patterns like hooks

### Software Engineering Intern @ Twitter
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
◆ Worked on Twitter’s experimentation platform team
◆ Developed a prototype Scalding job to improve metrics availability for users by enabling thousands of ratio metric possibilities across different data sources
◆ Collaborated with a team of 8 engineers to improve SLAs and pipeline functionality

### Software Engineer Intern @ Adobe
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, California
◆ Performed full-stack development for the Data Discovery and Governance team
◆ Created a React web app with a Node.js backend to allow engineers to easily view responses from Data Discovery and Governance APIs
◆ Optimized user interaction with the internal data discovery service through UI design


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Florida

### High School Diploma in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
Miami Lakes Educational Center


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelsamper
- Portfolio: http://www.michaelsamper.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/msamper

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Last updated: 2026-03-29