Samer Kanjo
Principal Software Engineer at Rate
Oak Forest, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamer Kanjo is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput distributed systems and cloud-native platforms across AdTech, FinTech, and security. He has a proven track record modernizing legacy stacks and delivering platforms that process millions of transactions per second, including ad exchange systems at Conversant handling 1.5M bid requests/sec. Samer blends hands-on engineering in languages like Clojure, Elixir, and Java with cloud infrastructure design on AWS and Azure, and he has led end-to-end initiatives from real-time processing to SIEM and supply-chain security deployments. He excels at turning fragmented integrations into unified APIs and data pipelines—seen in unified loan APIs, multi-provider insurance aggregation, and product taxonomy graph solutions. Comfortable both architecting and shipping, Samer also builds developer-facing automation and observability tools that reduce operational burden and surface actionable insights. Based in Oak Forest, Illinois, he pairs deep systems experience with a pragmatic focus on reliability, security, and measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Github Skills (45)
monitoring10
time-series10
datastore10
react10
database10
timeseries-database9
django9
full-stack9
go9
angular9
influxdb9
scalable9
rust9
analytics8
hugo8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
skanjo/samer.kanjo.net
Apr 2020 - Mar 2026
The personal web site of Samer Kanjo
Contributions:74 PRs, 157 pushes, 65 branches in 6 years
skanjo/orchid-bootstrapious-universal-bs4
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Orchid theme using Boostrapious Universal Bootstrap 4 template.
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 month
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