# Sam Eskandar

> Software Engineer @ Neuralink | Chicken Farmer, Beekeeper

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sameskandar

Passionate about neural interfaces, infrastructure, and jazz!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Neuralink
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Infrastructure Engineering Intern @ Arcesium
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Infrastructure Engineering Intern @ Neuralink
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Infrastructure Engineering Intern @ Neuralink
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Backend Engineering Intern @ Shopify
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Backend Engineering Intern working on Infrastructure for Shopify Billing Systems

### Manager - Sensor Interfacing, Autonomous Vehicles @ WATonomous
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Dockerized sensor network for easier deployment, and development of rostopics utilizing the sensors
- Developing data ingestion pipeline to publish sensor metrics and data for easier readability, testing, and visualization

### Software Developer, Autonomous Vehicles @ WATonomous
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Waterloo, Ontario
- Member of Sensor Interfacing Team
- Editing and implementing C++ and ROS code to improve state of autonomous team vehicle
- Improved sensor publishing rate by 8 times through C++ and Python sensor transforms code for accurate sensor data

### Autonomous Vehicles Software Engineer @ Ford Motor Company
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Developed gRPC messaging service in Java to send Autonomous Vehicle telemetry data, events, and signals for path planning, and scenario simulation

- Containerized envoy proxy server deployed on AWS Fargate to subscribe to gRPC server, displaying telemetry data in React client, allowing real time simulation of Autonomous Vehicle trips

- Experience with event driven architecture (SNS, SQS), containerized services (ECR, Fargate), server less architecture (Lambdas, API Gatway), and deployment through CloudFormation on AWS

- Integrated HERE HD maps into simulation service for accurate path planning

### Software Developer @ Exponet Canada Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Developed cross platform shipping software using React, Grails, MongoDB, and Flutter, saving company over $1000 monthly
- Implemented JWT authentication on Grails Server using Spring Security Plugin
- Handled complex state management in React using Redux and Redux-Sagas
- Responsible for UI/UX design, Frontend, Backend, and Database design for product
- Developed Java and Groovy code to directly interact with Amazon Web Services, and other related web services


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Mechatronics Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sameskandar
- Website: https://sameskandar.me
- Website: https://samtechblog.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-20