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Sam Fiallos

New York, NYNYU Tandon · CS · 2027

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Experience

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Sam at the Microsoft campus sign in Redmond — Still

Sam during Microsoft SWE internship summer 2026 — Still

Microsoft internship still from summer wrap post — Still

Take 01

Microsoft

SWE Intern, Commercial Engineering & AI

May 2026 – Aug 2026Redmond, WA

Launched a secure AI Workspace admin portal in React and TypeScript, cutting multi-hour workflows by over 90%.
Built a C# .NET authorization system that validates identity against Microsoft ServiceTree via Azure Kusto.
Shipped a Cosmos DB–backed MCP server registry for creating and managing AI tool connections end to end.
Delivered a self-service slash-command platform for instant access to critical business data.

Sam during Microsoft Explorer internship summer 2025 — Still

Explorer internship moment in Redmond — Still

Microsoft Explorer internship campus still — Still

Sam with Explorer internship cohort — Still

Take 02

Microsoft

Explorer Intern, AI Transformations

May 2025 – Aug 2025Redmond, WA

Launched a centralized dashboard and preferences platform that saved users about 52 minutes per week.
Built a responsive React and TypeScript frontend with Redux Toolkit.
Developed C# .NET APIs with Cosmos DB–backed preference syncing.
Implemented AI-powered personalization across users, accounts, and tenants — helping unblock roughly $133M in blocked tasks.

Take 03

New York University

Course Assistant, Introduction to Programming

Sep 2024 – PresentNew York, NY

Selected as 1 of 6 assistants from 120+ applicants for CS-1114.
Run weekly office hours and labs for 20+ students, reinforcing Python fundamentals, debugging, and exam prep.

Projects

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OweNone

Group IOUs, fewer transfers.

Settlement app with a Go and PostgreSQL backend for live transactions, a debt-graph compression engine that minimizes transfers, and a Next.js frontend for graph visualization and expense tracking.

TypeScript / Go / React / Next.js / PostgreSQL

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Microsoft Step

Social walking with an AI coach.

Hackathon app with GPS-verified walks, live navigation, leaderboards, and tiered rewards. Cerebras-powered coaching on a Go and SQLite backend, React on the client, Azure VPS hosting.

React / Go / Azure / SQLite / Cerebras

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Ares

Canary delivery that watches itself.

Kubernetes platform that automates canary releases, scores real-time service health, and rolls back regressions. Go operator plus a Linux eBPF agent for telemetry, with a React and TypeScript view of rollout status.

Kubernetes / Go / eBPF / React / TypeScript

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Procrastination Manager

Syllabus in, calendar out.

Parses syllabus PDFs with Multer, uses the OpenAI API to extract assignments, and syncs generated tasks to Google Calendar through a Node and Express backend.

Node.js / Express / OpenAI / Google Calendar

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