Sports & Staying Active
Basketball and baseball growing up, now mostly volleyball on Mondays — the highlight of my week — and golf, which I'm still very much learning.
SamuelWoo
software engineer, part-time robot wrangler
I'm Sam — a robotics engineer in the Bay. I build software for quadruped robots at Amazon, studied electrical engineering at UCSD, and spend most of my free time on a volleyball court or working through a long list of restaurants I keep meaning to finish. This is where I keep the stuff that doesn't fit on a résumé.
ExploreInterests
Food & Restaurants
I keep a running list of places to try and happily plan a trip around one good meal. Six I recommend often:
Distance from Sunnyvale — not direction.
- Zareen's0.7–13 miPakistani · four shops, Sunnyvale out to Redwood City
- Duc Huong9–12 miVietnamese sandwiches · four shops in San Jose
- San Ho Won34 miKorean barbecue · Mission District, San Francisco
- Arsicault34–37 miCroissants · three shops in San Francisco
- Wolf in the Woods421 miTapas and wine · Mission Hills, San Diego
- Double Chicken Please2,556 miCocktail bar · Lower East Side, New York
Both long hauls have a boarding pass.
Investing & Markets
I like following the market and thinking about where technology's headed — mostly index funds, with a few bets in areas I actually follow closely.
Random Favorites
- Sport
- Volleyball (Mondays!)
- Workout
- Chest day
- Drink
- Iced Americano
- Restaurant
- Wolf in the Woods
- Podcast
- The Zurkie Show
- Activity
- Running & clearing my head
Projects
A couple I've written up, plus one still on the bench.
- Runs 100% locally
- Multi-format parsing
- Cash-flow Sankey
Ka-ching — Finance Dashboard
Python · JavaScript
A local Mint alternative that turns a pile of bank statements into one honest picture of where the money went — no subscriptions, no linked logins, runs entirely on my machine.
Read case studyThis Website
Astro · Canvas · GSAP
Hand-written CSS, one React island for the playable green, reduced-motion aware. You're looking at it.
Read case studyOn the record03
projects tracked. Two written up end to end, one still on the bench.
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Full case studies + what's cooking
Full case studies, plus the dating-app idea I keep circling back to.
Browse allWork
The professional stuff, if you're into that.
What I Do
I'm an SDE II at Amazon Lab126. These days I work on the data pipeline for autonomous delivery robots — the C++ software that pulls terabytes of sensor data off the vehicles and into the cloud. Before that I owned the camera stack on Amazon's smart delivery glasses, which mostly meant making cameras crash a whole lot less.
Skills & Tools
- C++ / Python
- ROS2
- Embedded Linux
- Camera Systems / HAL
- AWS (S3, IoT, KMS)
- MQTT
- RAID
- SED / TCG
- Edge Computing
- PyTorch / Keras
- Docker
Experience
Amazon Lab126
Full-time · 2 yrs 8 mos- Software Development Engineer IIJul 2026 – Present · 3 mos
- Software Development Engineer IFeb 2024 – Jul 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos
Building the high-throughput data pipeline for autonomous delivery robots — a C++ edge appliance that ingests self-encrypting drives of vehicle sensor data into S3, moving 40+ Gbps across drives uploading in parallel. Owns the drive security lifecycle end to end: keyless cloud auth, encrypted-drive unlock, and audited crypto-erase.
Before this, was the SME for the camera stack on Amazon's smart delivery glasses — drove camera failure rates from 30.7% down to 0.5% and shipped hardware dewarp that cut CPU ~80%, across 244 devices and 270k+ deliveries.
Software Development Engineer Intern
June 2022 – September 2022Amazon Lab126
Architected and trained 10+ two-branch convolutional neural networks on IMU sensor data, achieving 90% accuracy via device-collected data through Keras' functional API and scikit-learn.
Implemented 4 models onto the device to perform real-time classification in 1.5 seconds at 90% accuracy using ROS (rospy and roscpp) and an internal API that executes .tflite models in C++.
ECE Department Tutor
September 2020 – June 2023UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering
Tutored 800+ students with homework and exam preparation over 10 academic quarters across 2 different courses. Achieved 100% recommendation rate from student surveys.
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