# Sameer Khoja

> Software Engineer at YouTube

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

Sameer is currently a Software Engineer at Youtube.

He's previously helped build products at Google, LinkedIn and Intuit. He actively freelances and works on a side project called SWEPrep.

SWEPrep is newsletter for anyone who’s interested in Computer Science and wants in on the action. Starting from fundamental interview questions, I help students ace their next SWE interview by offering in-depth explanations of problems in the form of blog posts. See more at http://www.sweprep.com. The newsletter has over 400 active subscribers. Each article gets 300+ views.

Sameer has contracted with companies like SportSpot Elympic, Paragon, FluidAI, & Function of Beauty (YC '16).

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ YouTube
Jan 2022 – Present | San Bruno, California, United States
Led design and implementation of educational shelf on TV devices to encourage voice usage
Worked alongside Assistant team to ship chapter navigation on TV using Voice
Executed backend, frontend, and client side changes to implement novel shelf behavior on the TV application

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Current:
•  Partner Domains (GSuite): Reallocated $XXM of wasteful spend to API-enabled Search/Update services
•  Securing Domains: Reducing $XXM of engineering effort through account overprovisioning
•  Temps and Vendors: Launched Google-wide COVID-19 feature which reduced eng toil by 30% across 1000s of vendor managers.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale
Worked under the Google Cloud team.

### Software Developer Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
• Worked under the Flagship Growth Team to deliver four features as a part of the Novice Member Experience
• Shipped search bar feature within People You May Know using Ember
• Shipped additional features to improve the overall LinkedIn onboarding experience
• Work resulted in increased new member invitations sent and new members joining LinkedIn

### Software Engineering Intern @ Intuit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Developed new IoT integrations using Amazon Alexa for Intuit Quickbooks accountants, resulting in a new set of conversational UI methods that increased dialogue capability by 2x
• Led an initiative to modularize and refactor 10+ front-end UI widgets using modern web technologies such as React and Redux, increased front-end uptime by 40%

### Software Engineer Intern @ Function of Beauty
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Stamford, CT
• Developed an iPad kiosk app for YC-backed startup.
• Implemented guerrilla marketing techniques to expand our user base, assessed which methods were the most effective.
• Worked directly with the CEO to maximize conversion rates and minimizing the duration of placing an order. 
• Ran back-end development of the company website, including login function and database integration.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Cornell University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science - Advanced High School Diploma in Mathematics and Science
University of North Texas
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### High School
Uplift North Hills Preparatory
Jan 2003 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sameerkhoja
- Website: http://sameerkhoja.com

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sameerkhoja/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22