Samson Chiu Email & Phone Number

Impact-driven software engineer with ~12 years of experience. Highly skilled in big data development, creating multiple novel processes to analyze a few hundred million records efficiently and delivering impact to end users and co-workers. Proficient in a versatile collection of apps, operating systems and languages. Employing Agile principles to ensure quality and timely delivery of software / products. Exceptional problem solver and out-of-box thinker, who proficiently contributes in large and small team settings. Enthusiastic team player, always looking to learn from others as well as provide leadership, guidance, and feedback to teams to ensure operational efficiency and a collaborative environment.

Listed skills include Maven, Debugging, Mongodb, Object Oriented Programming, and 15 others.

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  Senior Software Engineer

  Symantec

  Oct 2007 - Present - San Jose, California, Us

  ∙ Designed a​ critical disaster recovery process​ by building efficient Spark streaming apps to handle 300 million records daily∙ Drastically ​improved Spark application throughput by 2.5X the target ​to provide capacity for years of growth, using a collection of ​creative algorithms and tools​ including Naive Bayes Classifier, Spark SQL, Kafka, and Hive∙ Created a ​novel process to visualize a few hundred million records​ using simple dashboards, leading to easy analysis and drastically reduced workload∙ Spearheaded an​ ​end-to-end process​ to update a legacy application utilizing AWS, ​increasing throughput 30X∙ Refined a Node.js web API employing MongoDB and RabbitMQ, ​reducing end customer wait time from 1 minute to 1 second∙ Developed a ​RESTful storage solution​, simplifying customers’ codebase and increasing efficiency of stored data∙ Mentored​ junior engineers to ​develop and deploy​ a complex backend cluster using C#, Perl, and SQL Server

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  California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

  Computer Science