Samuel Hu
Software / systems2026
About / context

Engineer, builder, student of systems.

I'm a software engineer at Ford Credit. I work on AI tools, document-heavy processes, and internal systems where the hard part is usually understanding the workflow before writing the code.

Outside of work, I build independent software, read, play golf, and spend a lot of time learning how products and businesses actually work.

01 / Experience

The work so far

2025 —

Software Engineer · Ford Credit

AI tools, document processing, and internal workflow software.

Michigan
2024

SWE Intern · Ford Motor Company

Dealer information systems, cloud pipelines, and OCR tooling.

Dearborn, MI
2023

SWE Intern · Ford Motor Company

Full-stack software for dealer operations.

Dearborn, MI
02 / Operating principles

How I like to build

01

Start with the workflow

Understand where the friction actually lives before adding software.

02

Build the smallest real system

A useful first version should survive contact with real work.

03

Let usage rewrite the spec

Ship, observe, then make the product more precise instead of more complicated.

Keep going

The work and notes are the more useful parts of this site.