Samson H.

Samson H. is an experienced software engineer with a strong background in technology and data analytics. Currently at Pinterest since 2019 as a Software Engineer in the Core Retrieval Infrastructure team, Samson has contributed to the development of a graph recommendation engine and led efforts to modernize search infrastructure. Previously, in the Homefeed Infrastructure role at Pinterest, improvements were made to feed relevance and safety through various techniques. Before Pinterest, Samson worked at The Yes, focusing on personalized search and merchant payments, and at Wish, where important data features and internal analytics for the merchant platform were developed as an early engineering hire. Samson's career began as a Data Scientist at 500px, where an analytics stack was built in preparation for a Series B fundraise. Samson holds a Bachelor of Mathematics with Honours in Pure Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Waterloo.