Sam Berlin is a Staff Software Engineer at Google. He possess expertise in java, sql, software engineering, ant, distributed systems and 5 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "When I think of Sam, I think "a developer's developer." Sam is a sharp, thorough, conscientious, and driven developer who managed a large group of sharp, thorough, conscientious, and driven developers at Lime Wire. This was no easy task, but Sam made sure to review every single line of code, give feedback and encouragement to other developers, and made sure everything was on track. He single-handedly steered the development priorities of the world's most popular file sharing program to great success, and to the admiration of myself and many others at Lime. In that way, he was Lime Wire's heart and soul. On top of that, he was the open source maintainer of the LimeWire codebase and managed 3rd-party contributions to the code. He actively engaged in user and developer forums to address all types of issues with LimeWire. Despite his full plate of commitments and responsibilities, Sam was always helpful and had a good attitude about everything we were doing. I found him a pleasure to work with, and I can't wait to cross paths with him again." and "Sam was instrumental in all of the major transitions in the LimeWire codebase. He spearheaded the major re-factoring and componetization effort. He nearly single-handedly architected LimeWire's transition from the old Java 1.2 blocking threaded network operations to the much more efficient and radically different Java 1.4 NIO API."