Experience

Hi! I'm Sam. I've been writing software since 2013, and I'm now at Duke pursuing an M.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence. For my undergraduate degree, I did a B.B.A. in Computer Information Systems, and from there I've worked across the full stack: application code, cloud infrastructure, security, and compliance.

Everything on this page needed a different approach, and that shaped how I work. The combination is the unusual part: people with the business training to know who a product is for and whether its numbers work rarely ship production code, and engineers rarely go the other way. In the past year alone I migrated a production database, built a data platform from the ground up, shipped a machine learning service, ran a company's cloud identity, and managed another developer, and none of it felt like someone else's job. Machine learning is the newest layer and a real change of pace, since software is deterministic and ML is anything but. I can build the thing, understand the world it ships into, and talk with the people on every side of it.