# Samuel L. > Staff Software Engineer at Toast, Inc. Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samuell1 ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer, Team Lead @ Toast, Inc. Jan 2015 – Present | Greater Boston Area - Designed and built first set of microservices and related infrastructure to separate out payments from monolithic application - Focus on stability and scale as number of restaurants on the Toast platform increased from 100s to 10000s ### Software Engineer @ Toast, Inc Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Point of Sale (POS) system backed by cloud infrastructure, permitting a full range of services from basic POS functionality to detailed reports accessible anywhere from the web, customer loyalty program, online ordering, and much more. - Worked as a fullstack engineer with a small team to bring the number of customers from ~100 to 200+ during my internship - Play Framework, Postgres, Heroku, Android ### Software Developer @ Chango Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Toronto, Canada Area Online advertising/marketing company with focus on ad re-targeting. - Infrastructure team, systems to analyze data - Python, Disco (MapReduce) ### Software Engineer @ Xtreme Labs (now Pivotal Labs) Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 - Mobile applications, primarily for Bell TV app on Android - Android, Blackberry, iOS ## Education ### BCS University of Waterloo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samuel-l-74453a31 --- Source: https://flows.cv/samuell1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samuell1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31