about

Hi, I'm Sam. I am a Principal Software Engineer at Google where I am the Workspace Area Technical Lead for Production & Reliablity. I ensure Workspace products like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Meet are available, fast, and efficient 24x7. I studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

Currently a resident of Zürich, Switzerland, and originally from California, I enjoy being outside, thinking about how complex systems fail, and pondering how to speed up the climate revolution. My maximum latitudinal position is 67.853°.

contact

I can be most easily reached at samiam28 (at) gmail (dot) com, or via LinkedIn.

talks & publications

StaffPlus London 2023: The Dark Side of Standardization (June 2023)
SREcon21: Scaling for a Pandemic: How We Keep Ahead of Demand for Google Meet during COVID-19 (October 2021)
StaffPlus Live: How We've Scaled Meet During COVID19 (September 2021)
All Day DevOps 2020: How We Scaled Google Meet during COVID19 (November 2020)
Google Workspace Blog: Three months, 30x demand: How we scaled Google Meet during COVID-19 (August 2020)
SREcon17: Deploying Changes to Production in the Age of the Microservice (August 2017)