Sam King's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

💼 Past Experience

Sam King has 2 years of experience as a Software Engineer. In this role, Sam helped to build the software that allows users to process data for nonprofits. In this work, Sam also directly interacted with nonprofits to determine their needs and then took those needs and turned them into small projects that Sam herself could work on. Additionally, Sam helped to develop a business plan and managing fundraising and sponsorship proposals. Sam also worked as a Teaching Assistant for Stanford University where she taught a computer science probability class. Finally, Sam worked at Google from June 2013 to October 2014 where she developed a base that allowed people to learn about practical Unix and the various ways that it can be used.

🎓 Education

Sam King is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he received his BS in 2008 and a MS in 2013. He has also taught at South Eugene High School, where he served as a substitute teacher from 2004 to 2008.King's education gave him the theoretical toolset and practical experience to pursue a career in computer science. King has a strongbackground in programming and has developed several successful software products. He is fully prepared to pursue a career in computer science and enjoys working with students."I could not be more excited to be a professor at Stanford," King says. "This is a Very Royal University, and I am excited to contribute my knowledge and skills to the students here. I am really looking forward to helping them achieve their goals."Apart from his teaching skills, King has an interest in computer science research and has once authored a paper on a novel approach to parallel programming. He ranked second in the computer science department at Stanford in a competition judged by distinguished professors in the field.King is also a member of several computer science societies, and has given several dozen talks on theory and practice of computer science. He has authored several technical articles, and he was afinalist for the John Slatkin Award for excellence in public computer science teaching in 2016."I am really excited about my future at Stanford," King says. "I learned a lot at South Eugene and I plan to use my learning there to improve my teaching and research skills. I am really looking forward to advancing my career here."

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Sam King is currently a Staff Software Engineer at Nuna Inc. from July 2016 to January 2017 (7 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. I helped start the Data Platform Engineering team and became its tech lead. This involved maintaining context on all parts of the code base, mentoring more junior members of the team, ensuring that we didn't accumulate too much technical debt, helping the team adopt a standard coding style, and collaborating with other teams on things like automation and work prioritization. Principal Software Engineer at Empower. At Empower (https://organizingempowerment.org), I'm working on an app to help communities organize and get out the vote. We have a strong track record of success with relational organizing and research proving our effectiveness.Reach out if you're interested!. Founder, Director at Code the Change.• Developing strategic plan and ensuring that all operations fit within it, allowing us to double in size every year• Interviewing nonprofits to determine their technology needs and ensure that they leave satisfied• Refining nonprofit needs into small projects so that computer scientists can make meaningful contributions• Writing a business plan and managing fundraising and sponsorship proposals to make us self-sustaining• Contacting corporations, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs across the country in preparation to scale• Transitioning Stanford Dance Marathon Hackathon's organizational structure into Code the Change, allowing for continuity with Hackathon's leadership and partnerships• Recruiting leadership to allow Code the Change to put on events once a month rather than annually. Engineering Manager at Nuna Inc. from January 2017 to August 2019 (2 years 8 months) in San Francisco Bay Area.At Nuna Health, we help make healthcare higher quality and more affordable. We work with our clients to help them standardize and understand their health data so that they can make better decisions.My team, data platform engineering, builds tools that let internal users process data. For instance, we have a platform for writing simple transforms on the data and another one for data quality checks. Senior Software Engineer at Nuna Inc. from March 2015 to July 2016 (1 year 5 months) in San Francisco Bay Area.Because Nuna was just starting to scale up, I stepped in to a bunch of different roles depending on where there was most need. A few things I did:• Security and compliance work in preparation for a technical audit on TMSIS, our data warehouse for Medicaid.• Project management and government partnership work on TMSIS• Refactoring really messy legacy code• Infrastructure engineering and cloud automation work. Fixer at healthcare.gov from October 2014 to March 2015 (6 months) in Baltimore, Maryland Area. My team's goal was integrating modern programming practices into healthcare.gov to help people get healthcare, to improve government tech, and to save the government money. We worked on two major projects:1. The Scalable Login System. We replaced a login system that cost $240 million to build and $70 million per year to maintain. Our new system cost under $