# Sam Der > Software Engineer @ Capital One | CSE @ UCI ’24 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samder Hello! My name is Sam Der and I am an Associate Software Engineer at Capital One. Some of my current interests are AI/ML, embedded systems, cybersecurity, and web and mobile development! ## Work Experience ### Associate Software Engineer (TDP) @ Capital One Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Associate Software Engineer (TDP) @ Capital One Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | McLean, Virginia, United States Maintain critical infrastructure related to Capital One’s mobile banking application, website, and firewalls by updating AWS EC2s in Auto-Scaling Groups to use the latest AMIs and security groups Led resolution of issues with critical Jenkins pipelines that perform the above updates Contributed code and gave feedback for more than 15 pull requests for a custom innersource Python GraphQL client ### Undergraduate Researcher @ AS^2Guard Research Group Jan 2023 – Present | Irvine, California, United States Co-authored a paper that was accepted at VehicleSec 2024, a top-tier vehicle security conference, and received a travel grant to attend Deployed publicly accessible ROS simulations on major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure to understand attack patterns on ROS systems and display related metrics for each one on Grafana Study papers on the Robot Operating System (ROS) and reproduce the results provided ### Micromouse Member @ IEEE Student Branch at UC Irvine Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Irvine, California, United States Construct a robotic mouse running on an STM32 microcontroller on top of a custom PCB that autonomously navigate through a maze Interface with various peripherals such as IR sensors and encoders to tune the mouse's movement Implement complex C++ algorithms such as flood fill to determine which direction in a maze to travel in ### Control Systems Engineer @ UCI HyperXite - SpaceX Hyperloop Competition Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Irvine, California, United States Experiment with a Raspberry Pi Pico to generate sinusoidal pulse density modulation signals that help with controlling the motor of a Hyperloop pod Construct graphical user interface using React to allow interactions with the pod and display critical sensor data Leverage socket.io and Rust to allow fast, seamless communication of pod sensor data to a control tower Won Dean’s Choice Award at Annual Design Review, showcasing HyperXite to the public ### Webmaster @ ACM@UCI Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Irvine, California, United States Maintain the ACM club website built using React and Firebase along with UI frameworks including Bootstrap and Material UI Solve a large variety of programming problems Participate in internal competitive programming competitions ### Director of Technology @ Hack at UCI Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Irvine, California, United States Lead a team of passionate UCI students in renovating and improving frontends of websites for upcoming hackathons Maintain GitHub CI/CD and code style best practices by reviewing pull requests and providing constructive feedback Communicate with members from other committees within Hack at UCI to host informative workshops on topics such as vanilla JavaScript and React ### Technology Intern Program @ Capital One Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | McLean, Virginia, United States Strengthened phone number authentication system using AWS tools including Python Lambdas that query multiple company APIs, SQS for monitoring events, and CloudWatch for logging Wrote extensive unit tests to ensure functionality of the system and presented results of the project to fellow interns and high-level company executives Saved an estimated $3 million in operational expenses for Capital One according to business calculations ### Member @ Cyber@UCI Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Irvine, California, United States Learn various ethical hacking tools related to penetration testing and defense, including Bash scripting and command line utilities ### Systems Engineering Intern @ DIRECTV Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | El Segundo, California, United States Created a custom Grafana dashboard to incorporate data points from various CDN APIs to assist with making decisions on optimal CDN and network traffic distribution decisions Built exporters with Go to export CDN metrics to Prometheus that will be displayed on the Grafana dashboard Set up alerts that automatically send messages to Slack to notify network administrators about potential CDN network issues ### Member @ Commit the Change, UCI Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Irvine, California, United States Worked with a team of 5 people to build a complex full stack web application using React, Flask, and Firebase where members can request assistance related to software development ### Student Web Developer @ UC Irvine Student Life and Leadership IT Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Irvine, California, United States Developed secure administration tools for staff members in different departments Debugged and revitalized websites that will be in use for upcoming events Assisted with migrating 2 large websites, each with their own sub-applications, from one server to another Created a web development reference websites for fellow developers to use ### Committee Member @ Engineering Student Council (UC Irvine) Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Irvine, CA Orchestrated the development of a centralized engineering research website where faculty can search for qualified student researchers and students can look for research opportunities Helped devise new club events for the faculty committee to host throughout the year ### Google CSSI-Coursera Student @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Completed the following courses on Coursera: Java Programming: Principles of Software Design Java Programming: Building a Recommendation System ### Extern @ AT&T Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Learned about plethora of soft skills including public speaking, leadership, and time management ### Alameda County Justice Restoration Project Intern @ La Familia Counseling Center Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Oakland, CA Typed example resumes and guided clients to create their own resumes Drafted presentations on distress tolerance, substance abuse, and PTSD treatment to assist staff with clients Worked with a client to create a cover letter and résumé for a job, helping with their journey to turn their life around ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science And Engineering UC Irvine Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sam-der --- Source: https://flows.cv/samder JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samder/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22