# Sami Alqadi

> Software Engineer at Meta | CS @ Illinois

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

Hi there! I am a Computer Science and Linguistics graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I've interned at various companies, and taught an introductory CS course to 200 students (CS196) at UIUC! 

If you'd like to chat about anything feel free to connect or contact me directly at salqad3@illinois.edu!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Caterpillar Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Remote
• Reimplemented Tableau for financial and demand forecasting data visualizations using Python and Angular to improve computation and render time from 160 seconds to 0.5 seconds
• Removing the need for Tableau licenses costing $600,000 annually!

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Instructor | CS196 @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
• Lead Instructor for an introductory CS course of 200 UIUC students
• Presented weekly lectures on Bash, Git, and concepts using Python and Rust.
• Managed course staff of 30, created course content, and developed course infrastructure.

### Project Manager | CS196 @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
• Lead the scoping, planning, and scheduling of software projects developed by students
• Held weekly team meetings to evaluate progress and assign tasks

### Course Assistant | CS125 : Introduction to Computer Science @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
• Held weekly office hours to support non-technical majors in familiarizing themselves with problem solving techniques in Java
• Identified improvements for the course infrastructure, and attended weekly course staff meetings to discuss implications with the professor

### Software Engineering Intern @ Capital One
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Richmond, Virginia Area
• Expanded end-to-end test coverage for the Capital One and Walmart partnership using TypeScript, Protractor, and Cucumber
• Improved execution time by 83% per test case

### Software Engineering Intern (Spring 2020) @ COUNTRY Financial®
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Urbana-Champaign Area
• Improved ease-of-deployment and project environment setup via Docker containerization and a CI/CD pipeline

### Software Engineering Intern (Fall 2019) @ COUNTRY Financial®
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign Area
• Increased API response times by 30% via re-platforming antiquated JAX services to Spring Boot services (Novarica Impact Award Winner)
• Improvements include parallelizing network calls, replacing ad-hoc caching with Spring caching patterns, and developing a GitLab CI/CD pipeline

### Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2019) @ COUNTRY Financial®
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
•Built a React application that integrates Hadoop, Hive, and GitLab into temporary sandbox environments for developers
• Led a team of interns on a React application that allows users to analyze text data in CSV for sentiment or manually tag text to build training sets


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Linguistics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021

### High School Diploma
Harold L. Richards High School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22