Sammer Sheikh
San Francisco, CA, United States0
Sr. Technical Product Specialist @ RadiusXR® | AI Automation, Internal Tooling
Product-minded builder with 5 years spanning engineering, support, and technical product ownership. Ships operational tools that measurably reduce friction across manufacturing, QA, and support workflows.
Q&A
Post·1h ago
I've learned that you don't need a big budget to ship things that work. At Vagaro, I automated support workflows with Python and cut ticket resolution time by 30% using tools we already had. At Workday, I built financial systems that reduced pending-invoice duration by 25% by optimizing what existed rather than buying new infrastructure.
The pattern is simple: start with what's available. Existing databases, APIs, open-source libraries. Then layer in AI where it actually saves time, not where it sounds impressive. A well-placed automation or a smarter query beats expensive tooling every time.
The constraint is the feature. When you can't throw money at a problem, you think harder about the real friction point and solve it directly. That's how you build things people actually use.
Post·1h ago
Claude code, Hermes, and T3 code
Projects
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Murmur
On-device speech-to-text with local privacy focus
Built local-first STT for Watch and iPhone with LAN and Multipeer fallback sync to Mac. Uses Neural Engine Parakeet for on-device processing with CloudKit sync fallback. Privacy-first approach eliminates cloud STT dependency. Written in SwiftUI and TCA.
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SoundBite
Article-to-audio conversion with AI summarization
Flask and Gunicorn API on Render with Postgres backend. Generates MP3 with word-timestamp JSON via boto3 to AWS S3. Async worker handles LLM summarization and TTS. iOS share extension for easy article capture and playback.
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Dumbell
AI-powered iOS workout app with privacy-first sync
iOS workout app with AI analysis and builder via Cloudflare Worker edge proxy to keep API keys off-device with KV usage caps. Uses SwiftData and private CloudKit sync for data persistence. Integrated StoreKit 2 for in-app purchases and HealthKit for health data.
Experience
Senior Technical Product Specialist
RadiusXR®Jul 2024 — Feb 2026 · Pleasanton, California, United States
Defines and delivers operational products for XR medical devices across manufacturing, QA, support, and leadership workflows. Led product initiatives that cut support calls 80% through automated onboarding, reduced fleet release failure rates from ~30% to under 5% across 4,000 devices, and achieved production provision under 5 minutes. Shipped inventory and quality tracking systems handling 1,000+ unit shipments at 10× prior throughput.
Software Support Engineer
VagaroDec 2022 — Jun 2023 · Dublin, California, United States
Automated support workflows with Python, raising weekly ticket resolution capacity by 30%. Diagnosed critical intermittent payment bugs and collaborated with engineering on fixes. Optimized hot-path SQL for appointment scheduling, reducing average query time by 40%. Built automation test suite for proprietary Xpresso language, lowering pre-production bugs by 15%.
Software Engineer
WorkdayJul 2019 — Dec 2021 · Pleasanton, California
Built full-stack features including automated supplier-invoice approval workflows (reducing pending-invoice duration 25%, increasing on-time payments) and financial systems work. Designed schemas and optimized queries for Financial Supplier Accounts. Contributed to backend services and database optimization across the platform.
Quality Assurance Trainee
Year UpMar 2019 — Jul 2019 · San Francisco Bay Area
Year Up is an intensive, competitive technical training and career development program with over 250 corporate partners, graduating thousands of students annually across the nation. The program includes college-level courses, professional training, and a six-month internship
• Completed coursework in Web Development, Database Queries, Professional Skills, and Business Communications
• Specialized training in Quality Assurance including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and SQL
• White Box and Black Box testing
• Analyzed and reported on Functional Specification Documents and Big Reports
• Created automation scripts using Python on Selenium and Selenium IDE framework
Education
University of California, Merced
Computer Science
Jan 2016 — Jan 2018
Completed first two years of coursework for general education and computer science
General Assembly
Computer Science
Feb 2022 — Jun 2022
Completed 12 weeks/500+ hours of intensive Full Stack Development instruction.
• Built client-side applications with responsive behavior using JavaScript, React.
• Developed 4 full-stack web applications in four days sprints independently and
collaboratively while practicing Agile methodology. Utilized Git for version control.
• Built RESTful APIs to store data for web-apps using Rails and SQL (PostgreSQL) or Express
with MongoDB. Also integrated several third-party APIs.
Year Up
Computer Science
Jan 2019 — Jan 2020
Year Up is an intensive, competitive technical training and career development program with over 250 corporate partners, graduating thousands of students annually across the nation. The program includes college-level courses, professional training, and a six-month internship
• Completed coursework in Web Development, Database Queries, Professional Skills, and Business Communications
• Specialized training in Quality Assurance including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and SQL
Western Governors University
B.S. Business, IT Management
Credentials
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Honor or award
Elevator Pitch Competition
Year Up
Issued Jun 2019
-Won 1st place in Elevator Pitch Competition
-Delivered pitch in front of senior management of companies such as Microsoft and LinkedIn
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Course
Software Engineering Immersive
General Assembly
Issued May 2022
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Course
Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design
LinkedIn
Issued Jan 2020
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Course
Learning LinkedIn
LinkedIn
Issued Oct 2019
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Skills
AI AutomationQuality ManagementIT ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Product ManagementBRDsPresalesBusiness RequirementsProduction DeploymentLinux System AdministrationData AnalysisPostgreSQLReact.jsPublic SpeakingPython (Programming Language)SQL