Sam Thomas is a software engineer with a strong foundation in distributed computing and large-scale log analytics. Sam has experience as a Research Assistant at The University of Texas at Arlington and has held intern positions at Amazon and State Farm. Currently, Sam is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft, focusing on log streaming aggregation platforms that support essential features within Bing, including Copilot. With a continued career at Meta, Sam is involved in developing Wearables Technology. Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Arlington.