Samer Masterson

Samer Masterson is a Staff Software Engineer at Harvey since August 2023, previously serving as a Senior Software Engineer at Google from June 2020 to August 2023, where notable achievements include receiving the 2023Q3 Perfy Editors Choice Award for a web search indexing efficiency project and a Silver Award for code improvements in web indexing storage. Prior to Google, Samer worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox from September 2015 to March 2020, leading a successful project that reduced the crash rate of the Dropbox desktop client for Windows by 46%. Earlier experience includes a Backend Software Engineer role at Sourcegraph, where Samer scaled a code analysis backend, and participation in the Recurse Center program, as well as academic contributions as a Computer Science Teaching Assistant at George Mason University, where Samer also founded the GNU/Linux User Group. Samer began professional experience as an IT Intern at CACI International Inc. and holds an educational background from George Mason University.