Sam Thompson
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Thompson is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building mobile platforms, currently leading Android product engineering at Robinhood from Palo Alto. He specializes in Kotlin-first architectures and applies functional programming principles to create robust, maintainable Android apps, while staying engaged with cross-platform tech like Flutter and React Native. At Pinterest he built frameworks that supported 30+ developers, and at Robinhood he has progressed through engineering levels into senior-staff leadership, blending hands-on coding with platform design. Beyond code, he brings a research-minded approach from prior machine learning and systems internships, and fuels creative problem solving by training for XC mountain bike races around San Francisco.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (42)
kotlin10
longpress10
animation10
github-app10
pinterest10
menu10
android-component10
android10
dismissible10
geotrellis9
displays9
github-api9
android-app9
tracks9
dart8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CS378-OSSE/geotrellis
Mar 2015 - Feb 2019
GeoTrellis is a geographic data processing engine for high performance applications.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
wcsgeotrelliswpsgeospatialdata-processing
SamThompson/BubbleActions
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
An open source implementation of the long press actions in the Pinterest app.
Contributions:11 releases, 111 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 5 months
longpresspinterestkotlinbubbleanimation
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