Samer Masterson
About Samer Masterson
Samer Masterson is a member of the Technical Staff at Harvey, where he has worked since 2023. He previously held positions at Google and Dropbox, contributing to significant projects that improved web search efficiency and application performance.
Work at Harvey
Samer Masterson has been a member of the Technical Staff at Harvey since 2023. In this role, he contributes to various technical projects and initiatives, leveraging his extensive experience in software engineering. His current position allows him to apply his skills in programming and system development to enhance the company's technological capabilities.
Previous Experience at Google
Before joining Harvey, Samer Masterson worked at Google as a Senior Software Engineer from 2020 to 2023. During his tenure, he developed a new tracing system for web search that processes over 100 billion documents, resulting in significant cost savings. He also implemented a document ingestion service that handles 430 million requests daily, which was rolled out to 25 data centers.
Experience at Dropbox
Samer Masterson served as a Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox from 2015 to 2020. He led a project that significantly reduced the desktop client crash rate on Windows by 46%. Additionally, he developed a service that managed 19 million requests per day at peak, improving the speed of Dropbox.com by 3.5 seconds.
Education and Training
Samer Masterson studied at George Mason University from 2012 to 2013. His educational background provided him with foundational knowledge in computer science and software development, which he has applied throughout his career in various technical roles.
Awards and Recognition
Samer Masterson received the Google Perfy Editors Choice Award in 2023 for a project that improved web search indexing efficiency, saving over 120 software engineer years in machine costs. He also earned the Google Healthy Silver Award in the same year for simplifying and refactoring the web indexing storage pipeline.