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Modern Developer

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About

Code that stays shippable

I care about clear boundaries, typed contracts, and interfaces that stay fast as products grow.

Skills

Capabilities

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Postgres

Experience

Career

  • Senior Engineer

    Jan 2021 — Present

    Northwind Labs

    Owned billing workflows and the customer admin console.

Projects

Selected work

Product work shaped by clarity, craft, and outcomes.

Relay API

Event-driven billing API with idempotent webhooks.

Node · Postgres

Traceboard

Observability UI for product funnels.

React · Charts

Shipgate CI

Preview environments for every PR.

DevOps

Vault Keys

Secrets rotation service with audit trails.

Security

Edge Cache Kit

CDN caching patterns for Next.js apps.

Edge

Query Studio

Internal SQL explorer with saved views.

SQL

Services

How I can help

Product engineering

End-to-end features from schema to UI.

API design

Stable contracts with docs and versioning.

Performance audits

Find and fix Core Web Vitals regressions.

Education

Studies

  • B.S. · Computer Science

    University of Washington

    Jan 2014 — Jan 2018

Testimonials

What clients say

Sam ships carefully — typed, tested, and easy for the next engineer.

Sarah Chen

Eng Manager · Contoso

The billing API Sam designed has survived three product pivots.

Michael Torres

Staff Engineer · Northwind Labs

Contact

Let’s work together

Tell me about your project — I usually reply within one business day.