Samuel Falvo
Software Engineer at ForthCraft
San Lorenzo, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Falvo is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building reliable, test-driven systems across embedded firmware, backend services, and cloud tooling. He blends functional programming and design-by-contract practices with a strong background in ASIC pre-tapeout test design, device drivers, and network/server provisioning. Samuel has driven scale-focused infrastructure work—rewriting backends for 100x–1000x load growth—and has maintained C and Rust clients and CI/CD pipelines for production libraries at Aerospike. An early contributor and initial developer on the gophercloud OpenStack Go SDK, he has hands-on experience improving authentication and security group APIs in a well-known open-source project. Based in San Lorenzo, CA, he pairs deep engineering craft with practical operational experience, often stepping into tier-2 support and program management when systems demand it.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
T. R. Proctor High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
openstack-api10
security10
aws-security-group10
go10
rest-api10
network-security-groups10
authentication9
user-authentication9
grammar6
expression6
shared-libraries6
parsing6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rackspace/gophercloud
Jun 2013 - Aug 2014
A Go SDK for OpenStack. IN FEATURE FREEZE. See Issue #592
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:106 commits, 3 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the implementation of OpenStack-related APIs within the Go SDK, specifically focusing on security group management. Their work includes the creation of functions to list, create, retrieve, and delete security groups, as well as related data structures and interfaces. Additionally, the user made changes to authentication-related files to improve the usability of the SDK.
goopenstack
KestrelComputer/Kestrel2
Aug 2012 - Feb 2016
Contributions:557 commits, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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