# Samuel Zhang

> Software Engineer @ Samsara

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samuelzhang1

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower 

I strive to be prepared, systematic, and adaptable. I also try to share what I've learned along the way - so beyond engineering, I lead a mentorship program for students in Philadelphia

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer III @ Samsara
Jan 2025 – Present
Engineering on the Growth team, which works closely with business development teams to accelerate revenue by building products and systems that support scalable growth — from lead conversion tooling to experimentation platforms

Asking questions like “what can we build to increase marketing pipeline?” and “how can we improve the customer journey to drive better activation and retention?” to work with GTM teams to identify opportunities, then design, build, and test solutions — always measuring impact along the way

Building across the entire stack, from design and development to architecture and deployment to testing. We use Python for our backends, Javascript (Vue) for our frontends, and AWS to manage our infrastructure. 

Believing deeply in solving hard business problems with software, data, and exceptional cross-team collaboration

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
Built educational software for children in Amazon Kids, working full-stack on a newly formed generative AI team. Patent pending!

Formerly worked on a backend team controlling browse and search experience for Amazon Kids devices and applications. My responsibilities were broadly classified under two focus areas, device child experience and performant catalog computation at scale

### Full Stack Engineer @ SetSail
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
Started as one of the first 50 employees of SetSail, the first signal-based selling platform. We utilized AI and behavioral science to transform sales data into informative signals for understanding and expanding revenue growth

### Software Developer @ Workday
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Pleasanton
Designed and delivered critical features that enabled greater flexibility and performance for Workday's core HR application used by millions of people worldwide. Assisted with migrating and modernizing its proprietary language codebase into Kotlin

### Software Developer Intern @ Workday
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Pleasanton, California
Worked on search optimization with the Workday Search and Application Development teams to more intelligently filter data on a search engine

### Fullstack Developer Intern @ Konviv
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, California
Created from scratch the backend of the MVP for a mobile financial app that categorizes and budgets transactions, including leading database design and security


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Dougherty Valley High School

### BASIS Scottsdale


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samuel-zhang-8a521ba0

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Last updated: 2026-03-29