# Sameet Sapra

> Staff Software Engineer at Meta

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sameet

I’m currently a staff software engineer at Meta focusing on data classification infrastructure and GenerativeAI Privacy.

Wrote a paper on “Scalable data classification for security and privacy”: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/07/21/security/data-classification-system/

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Present | Menlo Park, CA

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
- Teach a classroom of students on basic application, web, and network security concepts
- Write and distribute security programming assignments

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, CA
- Develop scanner to efficiently sample Cassandra tiers and record features on column families
- Record feature counts to identify and label user data on a data discovery platform
- Support feature aggregation to enable a tenfold increase in reach across data warehouse

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cask Data
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California
- Test and help release version 4.2 of CDAP, a data application platform for building big data applications on top of a local, distributed, or cloud sandbox environment
- Add the ability to schedule data pipelines based on the status of other pipelines on CDAP
- Implement transactional recording of all program states on the platform using Apache Twill

### Web Developer @ Cognitive Computation Group
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
- Refactor the research tools and demos on the website to fix the performance and reliability
- Improve the content management system for website administrators

### Software Engineer Intern @ NextCapital Group
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chicago, IL
- Directed front end team to migrate to React and Redux and incorporate a component-based architecture
- Organized S3, SNS, SQS, and Lambda on AWS to enroll, and encrypt new users onto the platform
- Refactored financial institution stack to securely store confidential user information
- Encoded user's entitlements and role on website through bitwise operations
- Built internal dashboard to integrate with PivotalTracker's API and track progress for major milestones

### Frontend Engineer Intern @ SimpleRelevance
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chicago, IL
- Overhauled the website dashboard to display key test and control data for clients
- Displayed adjustable graphs, day by day reports, exportable pdfs and csvs of the data, and customer and item filtering
- Learned how to write React.JS and Backbone.JS in Flux architecture
- Optimized the blog and the website for all mobile devices and browsers
- Improved the website’s reliability, consistency, and page load efficiency
- Created an admin panel for administrators to update static content on the website without redeploying the application
- Pushed over 250,000 lines of code to production


## Education
### Masters in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### Neuqua Valley High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Illinois Institute of Technology
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22