Sam Meyer

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Senior Frontend Engineer at Instacart · Web frontends · GraphQL, CSS

Instacart
Raleigh, NC · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
Purdue University
English
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Overview

Currently at Instacart, where I work on web frontends. Cut the main bundle by 58% and got LCP under 1.6 seconds. Before that: Microsoft and Dropbox. Most at home with observability and Next.js.

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  • Advice on web frontends
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about web frontends
  • Second opinions on Next.js decisions
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  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
Next.jsCSSGraphQLobservability
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Office hours for students choosing a first job: web frontends and observability

Topics
web frontends, CSS, GraphQL
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Seed to Series A teams

9 years of web frontends. One call a month or async reviews.

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Experience

  1. Senior Frontend Engineer
    Oct 2024 - Present
    Instacart · 2 yr · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Grew the web team from 4 to 18 engineers.
    • Wrote the observability service that now handles 58 million requests a day.
  2. Frontend Engineer
    Feb 2021 - Oct 2024
    Microsoft · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Led the move of 196 screens to a shared React component library.
    • Wrote the Next.js service that now handles 83 million requests a day.
  3. Frontend Engineer
    Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
    Dropbox · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Cut the main bundle by 59% and got LCP under 2.4 seconds.
    • Led the move of 254 screens to a shared React component library.
  4. Frontend Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
    JPMorgan Chase · 10 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Cut the main bundle by 52% and got LCP under 1.8 seconds.
    • Moved 67% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Purdue University
    BS, Information Technology
    2013 - 2017

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