Samuel Messing

VP of Engineering

New York City, New York, United States14 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led the fastest launch of a web service in Google's incubator.
  • Developed systems processing hundreds of terabytes daily.
  • Co-founded a successful startup within Google.
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JavaPythonHTML5HTMLResearchCSSEditingWritingJavaScript

Experience

Slack

4 roles

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos

  • Search and AI

Senior Director

Promoted

Nov 2024Jul 2025 · 8 mos

  • Search

Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager

Promoted

Aug 2022Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Lists

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2021Aug 2022 · 10 mos

  • Huddles

Google

4 roles

Staff Software Engineer

May 2021Oct 2021 · 5 mos

  • Google Meet Devices - Health and Telemetry (Lead). I build systems that allow us to monitor and evaluate the performance of Google Meet Hardware. This involves building full-stack solutions for telemetry from OS-level changes to backend processing pipelines. My systems process hundreds of terabytes a day and allow us to know in realtime how our devices are performing.

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2016Apr 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Tog, an Area 120 Startup (Co-Founder & Tech Lead): Co-founded Tog (togalong.com), a startup within Google’s internal incubator, Area 120. Tog is a travel recommendation service where users can collect & organize recommendations from their friends and popular publications, with a deep integration into Google Maps. Fastest launch of a globally available web service in the incubator’s 4 year history.
  • Rapid Prototyping Team for Android & Research (Lead): Built proof-of-concept and initial prototypes for marquee Android features including Smart Text Selection and Digital Wellbeing. All prototypes involved on-device ML for a privacy-first approach. Co-led an experimental embedded hardware project involving on-device machine learning for real-time human/AI collaboration, involving 20+ engineers.
  • Data Analysis & ML Research for G Suite Editors (Tech Lead): Pitched, founded, and lead a team of five engineers to perform data analysis, ML prototyping, and ML integration for the G Suite Editors (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Keep, Jamboard, Sites). Designed and implemented petabyte-scale pipelines, requiring integration and coordination across the individual G Suite editor teams

Software Engineer III

Oct 2014Oct 2016 · 2 yrs

  • Built data analysis features for Google Sheets, including a table detection algorithm to understand the underlying structure of data in spreadsheets. This algorithm is used in Sheets Explore features including Natural Language Answers, Pivot Table Suggestions, Chart Suggestion, and Formatting Suggestions.

Software Engineer II

Aug 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Worked on full-stack implementation of features for Google Docs; member of the on-call production rotation.

Fusemachines

Consultant

Jun 2013Jul 2013 · 1 mo · New York, New York, United States

  • Aided in the development of dialog state tracking systems for use in an automated chat client.

Google

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2012Aug 2012 · 2 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

University of pennsylvania

Research Specialist

Oct 2009Jun 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Philadelphia

Education

Columbia Engineering

MS — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2013

The Johns Hopkins University

Bachelor of Arts — Philosophy

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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