Sam (Saeed) Behnam is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with experience at Google since October 2020, following a tenure at Uber and VMware. Prior experience includes roles as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where contributions were made to the Fulfillment by Amazon group, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM, focusing on patient flow management in healthcare. Academic background includes a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, where Sam proposed a framework for capturing requirements models and contributed to key research in aviation security.