# Sam Edwards

> Computer Science | Columbia University ‘25

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samedwards

My interests include system programing, networks and distributed systems.
My research includes network privacy and memory/speed optimization at all levels of computing.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ New York Life
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Led the migration of a full suite of insurance, annuity, and long-term care backend applications from on-premises infrastructure to a cloud platform, implementing distributed systems patterns, multithreading, and improved load-balancing to increase scalability, resiliency, and throughput.

Designed and enhanced robust file input/output pipelines integrating multiple databases, spreadsheets, and external data sources, ensuring accurate, reliable data exchange critical to underwriting and policy processing workflows.

Developed an AI-driven diagnostic tool that analyzed payloads from failed applications to automatically identify root-cause errors and generate actionable audit reports, significantly reducing manual investigation time and improving application turnaround rates.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Columbia Engineering
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Developed advanced differential privacy APIs aimed at addressing and mitigating potential vulnerabilities in both centralized databases and distributed network infrastructures.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Columbia Engineering
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Optimized system-level query performance for billion-scale datasets focusing on memory bottlenecks and advanced caching techniques.

### Software Engineer Intern @ New York Life
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Developed backend systems for a distributed application suite, focusing on software development, system component integration, and infrastructure migration.


## Education
### B.A in Computer Science
Columbia University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samjoredw

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Last updated: 2026-04-13