# Sammer Sheikh **Senior Technical Product Specialist** — San Francisco, CA, United States > 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. Career Archetype: **Launchpad Trailblazer** (HS-MG) — One of the first Launchpad Trailblazers on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sammersheikh - GitHub: https://github.com/sammersheikh - Portfolio: https://sammersheikh.github.io/sammersheikhportfolio/ ## Experience ### Senior Technical Product Specialist, RadiusXR® (2024-07 – 2026-02) 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, Vagaro (2022-12 – 2023-06) 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, Workday (2019-07 – 2021-12) 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 Up (2019-03 – 2019-07) 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 ### Computer Science, General Assembly (2022-02 – 2022-06) 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. ### Computer Science, Year Up (2019-01 – 2020-01) 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 ### Computer Science, University of California, Merced (2016-01 – 2018-01) Completed first two years of coursework for general education and computer science ### B.S. Business, IT Management, Western Governors University ## Projects ### 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. ### 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. ### 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. ## Skills AI Automation, Quality Management, IT Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Management, BRDs, Presales, Business Requirements, Production Deployment, Linux System Administration, Data Analysis, PostgreSQL, React.js, Public Speaking, Python (Programming Language), SQL, Test Automation, Computer Science, Software Development, Scrum, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile Methodologies, Testing, Usability, Front-end Development, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Programming, Microsoft PowerPoint, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Selenium, JIRA, HTML5, Swift (Programming Language), Xcode, Customer Service, Web Standards, Black Box Testing, Selenium WebDriver, LinkedIn, jQuery, MongoDB, Mongoose, Node.js, Express.js, Web Services API, API Development, Problem Discovery, MVP Scope, Prioritization, Rollout Management, Change Management, Success Metrics, Medical Device Operations, FDA Compliance, MDSAP, Fleet Management, Salesforce, Mixpanel, SwiftUI, TCA, Full Stack Development, Workflow Automation, Analytics, Cross-functional Delivery, Stakeholder Management, Manufacturing Operations, QA Processes, Logistics, RMA, Digital History Records, MDM, CloudKit, AWS, AI/LLM Features ## Credentials - **Elevator Pitch Competition** — Year Up (issued 2019-06) - **Software Engineering Immersive** — General Assembly (issued 2022-05) - **Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design** — LinkedIn (issued 2020-01) - **Learning LinkedIn** — LinkedIn (issued 2019-10) - **CSS Essential Training 1** — LinkedIn (issued 2019-09) - **HTML Essential Training** — LinkedIn (issued 2019-06) ## AI Fluency - **Claude** — My daily driver for agentic coding and PRD generation (https://claude.ai) - **Hermes** — My AI agent on my personal computer - **OpenCode** — My alternative AI models for subagent tasks (https://opencode.ai) - **DeepSeek** — My go to AI api model (https://deepseek.com) ### Portfolio Sammer Sheikh’s personal portfolio containing most of his projects · https://sammersheikh.github.io/sammersheikhportfolio/ · https://saywise.com/s/a1907acc9711 ## Q&A ### [What are your biggest strengths?](https://saywise.com/q/16458e492490) - 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. (https://saywise.com/s/26f4dc43e930) ### [What AI tools do you use the most?](https://saywise.com/q/10c2b363a976) - Claude code, Hermes, and T3 code (https://saywise.com/s/35601d1bd10e) --- Source: https://saywise.com/member8301 (last modified 2026-10-06T03:02:29.675Z)