Samuel Dov Gendler also known as Sam Gendler is a former Software Engineer at Google based in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Sam specializes in the design and development of high performance and scalable products from blank slate to market.

Sam is passionate about playing musical instruments.

He states on Quora that the plays piano for blues, soul music, funk, and rocks gigs on a weekly basis. He lists himself as knowledgeable about modular synthesizers, synthesizers, hammond organs, electric pianos, and pianos. ^[1]

Sam was a Software Engineer in Google's Personal Search group, based in the Greater Los Angeles Area from January, 2014-February, 2016. He had first joined Google as a Site Reliability Engineer in August, 2013.

From January-August, 2014, Gendler was a Contract Senior Software Engineer at Western Asset Management, based in Pasadena, CA. Sam worked with Java EE development in support of trading compliance using Spring Framework, Oracle8, among others. He created compliance rules engine with formal language parser (ANTLR), lots of performance improvements, and implemented distributed cluster management functionality via Hazelcast library, replacing Terracotta, Inc..

Previously, Sam worked as a Software Systems Architect at Ecorithm, Inc from January, 2011-2013. Sam was responsible for all Software and Systems Modeling, all Data architecture, db administration, systems administration, Data acquisition, 3rd party systems interaction and service consumption, and technical contact for all customer interaction. He was a Technical Lead for a team of 4 Software engineers and the mechanical/ Thermal engineering team.

From October, 2009-November, 2011 Sam worked in R&D at Cedexis, Inc, being responsible for design and implementation of all customer facing web applications, Database development (PostgreSQL), administration, and Data mining. He grew the UI team from a single engineer to a team of 6 during a period when the company grew from 4 full time employees to something closer to 20 and traffic grew exponentially, to something on the order of a billion requests per day.

Sam Gendler also worked as a Software architect at the Applied Minds from November, 2008-October, 2010.

From October, 2007-2008, Sam was an Executive Vice President of Technology at AdDynamix.

Previously, Sam was the Director of Engineering at AdDynamix since November, 2005 till October, 2007.

Being a Systems architect at Fastclick, Inc. in August, 2004 - November, 2005, Sam was responsible for Software and Systems Modeling for managed search product, including developing optimization algorithms (Patent pending) and integrating the product into the existing product offerings. He also led development of a team of 8 engineers from whiteboard to product launch.

From 2003-2004, Sam worked as a Production engineer at PDI/DreamWorks. Sam thought the job was "sexy" and had the opportunity to work on films including Shrek2 and Madagascar (film). However he had taken a pay cut to take the job from his previous position at Akami. The pay cut he had to take had a psychological effect and made it one his least favorite jobs. It also took him years to recover from the pay cut.

From 2000-2003, he was a Software Architect at Akamai. While working at Akami he was offered a position at Google before the company went IPO in 2004 however he turned it down since it would have required to take him a $45,000 pay cut.

Sam also worked for Impossible as a CTO in 1999-2000. Sam was previously a Software Architect in Cache Engine at Cisco Systems, Inc. in 1997-2000.

Sam partially completed a bachelor's in Liberal studies at Antioch University Los Angeles, but never quite completed it before enrolling in their Clinical psychology Master's program. In 2016 he started working towards finishing up his partially completed bachelor's from Antioch.

In 1993-1997 Sam studied at University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with BS in Computer science. In 1993 Sam graduated from Santa Barbara City College with Associate of Arts in Music.