DJ Sam Seng Menu
Experience(); // 8+ Years
Skills(); // TypeScript, Python, SwiftUI, React
Projects(); // AI, Web Apps
Life(); // Purpose, Religion, Food
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2016
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Bloomberg LP
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2021
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AI Researcher
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2024
Experience
Bloomberg LP
2016 - 2021
Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead
New York, New York
Launchpad Team
- Full stack senior software engineer and team lead for the Launchpad UI infrastructure team.
- Helped save the company $1 million+ in SLA breaches by fixing the sharktooth outage that caused client computers to freeze during trading and market hours.
- Protected $100,000+/year in subscription revenue by fixing the sticky hotspot bug.
- Prototyped future $1 million+ projects, helping shape the product roadmap.
- Modernized and re-architected Launchpad into a 21st century desktop environment using TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, Python, SQL, CMake, DPKG and JIRA.
- Improved EMSX launch speed 10x for APAC clients by migrating it off of legacy C/gob code on Sun and IBM servers and onto a hybrid Linux and client side architecture.
- Increased IB Messenger’s reliability for 100,000+ daily users by reducing it’s server side dependencies through cross team pull requests.
- Reduced outage recovery time by creating a launchpad investigation tool in JACK<GO>.
- Unblocked SSBL migration by fixing the final multiyear bugs, enabling the shutdown of legacy infrastructure years overdue.
- “Sam your unit tests saved me from so many bugs” – teammate.
- Led sprint planning, created JIRA projects, and prioritized backlogs at weekly, monthly, and quarterly levels to drive transparent execution with product and engineering teams.
- Built actionable growth plans for team members and worked with them monthly to hit their goals.
Machine Learning Team
- Developed a python backtesting platform library for financial trading strategies
- Developed machine learning models investigating the value of Bloomberg News data
AI Researcher
2021 - Present
Building products at the intersection of neural networks, brain inspired visual understanding and AI augmented user interfaces
- Wrote the official Python tutorial for Google A2A. https://google.github.io/A2A/#/tutorials/python/1_introduction
- Author of blpapi-mcp and blpapi-a2a, open source MCP and A2A providers of Bloomberg API data
- Building AI agents for construction pdf understanding using Agent2Agent (A2A), Model Context Protocol (MCP), Python, PyTorch, Vision Transformers, CLIP and RAG to count windows, doors, lights, fixtures and calculate square footage for contractors, subcontractors and electricians.
- Built an AI augmented user interface for construction plan analysis using Typescript, React, NextJS, TailwindCSS, Supabase and AWS lambda.
- Investigated non-gradient methods for decision making.
- Filed a provisional patent for a new audio time-frequency transform.
- Built a framework for an AI agent to browse, listen, type and click in a web browser or desktop environment using Python, React and Typescript.
- Built the ability for the AI agent to learn and imitate a user or dataset using Chrome and puppeteer
- 3D printed a physical robotic hand leveraging computer vision for hand tracking.
- Submitted an open source pull request to AWS Lambda allowing options requests in testing. github.com/aws/aws-lambda-runtime-interface-emulator/pull/84
- Gave a free workshop on Deep Learning to Cambodian tech students. https://youtu.be/aq3ORyziTac
OneLook Thesaurus
2022 - 2023
iOS Developer (Contractor)
Fairfield, CT
OneLook Thesaurus for iOS and macOS
OneLook Thesaurus
for iOS and macOS
- Built the OneLook Theaurus iOS and macOS app with over 8,000 downloads and over 600 active paid subscribers
- Features AI powered free text queries, voice search and a keyboard extension
- Used SwiftUI, Core Data and StoreKit 2
Susquehanna International Group
Summer 2015
Software Engineering Intern
Philidelphia, PA
- Implemented Elasticsearch as a search engine for market and derived data
- Wrote multiprocessed Python programs indexing 500GB daily and improved indexing 5-10x
- Developed a user interface using Flask, Javascript and Bootstrap featuring autocomplete and data visualization
- Wrote a custom query language parsing Python, C++ and English like syntax into Elasticsearch’s query language
- Designed performance tests of Elasticsearch vs. parallel IPython on a distributed cluster
Lockheed Martin
Summer 2014
Software Engineering Intern
Burlington, MA
- Designed and developed user interface features for the F-15 Virtual Maintenance Trainer’s instructor tool using C#, .NET(WPF) and MVVM. Process included mockups, design presentations and reviews
- Improved application performance 20x for database and GUI refresh operations
- Worked on an Agile team of 14 members and participated in daily standups
Skills
Programming Languages
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SwiftUI C++ SQL CSS Frameworks and Technologies
ReactJS NextJS PyTorch SvelteKit iOS Supabase TailwindCSS Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Class of 2015
Bachelors of Science, Computer and Systems Engineering
3.99/4.0 GPA
- Summa Cum Laude
- 4.0 Award (2013, 2014)
- Member of founding team of Submitty (Homework Server)
- Member of Rensselaer Center for Open Source
AI Research
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Enjoy CRM
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TakeOff
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GatherBadger
Projects
Enjoy CRM
2023
Software Engineer
- Built a Khmer CRM for our church using Typescript, Sveltekit and Supabase using Telegram as the login identifier as most people in Cambodia do not have email addresses
- Features web (graphical) and text messaging (chat bot) user interfaces
- Built rostering software for church volunteers
- Used Typescript, Sveltekit, Supabase and AWS Lambda
GatherBadger
2022
Software Engineer
- Built a gift giving search engine using TypeScript, React, Supabase and TailwindCSS
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